Background
Conrad F. Taeuber was born on June 15, 1906, in Hosmer, South Dakota, United States. He was the son of Richard Ernst and Emmy (Mussgang) Taeuber.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Conrad received a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Minnesota.
69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Taeuber attended the University of Heidelberg in Germany from 1929 to 1930.
Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Taeuber attended the University of Wisconsin from 1930 to 1931.
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Conrad F. Taeuber was born on June 15, 1906, in Hosmer, South Dakota, United States. He was the son of Richard Ernst and Emmy (Mussgang) Taeuber.
Conrad received a Bachelor of Arts in 1927, a Master of Arts in 1929, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1931, all from the University of Minnesota. Taeuber also attended the University of Heidelberg in Germany from 1929 to 1930, and the University of Wisconsin from 1930 to 1931.
Taeuber began his career in the early 1930s as a professor at Mount Holyoke College. After working at the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Conrad Taeuber began his career at the U.S. Census Bureau as Assistant Director for Demographic Fields in 1951 and Associate Director for Demographic Fields from 1968 to 1973. Then he became a professor of demography at Georgetown University.
He co-wrote four books including The Changing Population of the United States and The People of the United States in the Twentieth Century, which he wrote with his first wife, Irene Taeuber. His first book, Rural Migration in the United States, was written with Charles E. Lively in 1939, and his last, Density: Five Perspectives, was written with Paul N. Ylvisaker in 1972. He was also co-editor of two books with Richard D. Lambert: America in the Seventies and America Enters the Eighties.
Conrad Taeuber was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Sociological Association, as well as a member of the Population Association American (former president), Inter-American Statis Institute (past president), Rural Sociological Society, International Statistical Institute, and Sociological Research Association.
On July 26, 1929, Conrad Taeuber married Irene (Barnes) Taeuber. She deceased on February 24, 1974. On September 10, 1979, Conrad married Dorothy Harris. Taeuber had two children, Richard Conrad and Karl Ernst.
Irene Barnes Taeuber (December 25, 1906 – February 24, 1974) was an American demographer who worked for the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, where she edited the journal Population Index from 1936 to 1954. Her scholarly work is credited with helping to establish the science of demography.