Edmund De Schweinitz Brunner

Background

Brunner, Edmund De Schweinitz was born on November 4, 1889 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Franklin Henry and Nina (de Schweinitz) Brunner.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Moravian College, 1909, Master of Arts, 1912, Doctor of Philosophy, 1914, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1935. Bachelor of Divinity, Moravian Theological Seminary, 1911. Doctor of Laws, University Natal, South Africa.

Career

Ordained to ministry Moravian Church, 1911. Pastor, Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, 1911-1914, 1st Church, Easton, 1914-1918. Rural secretary Committee on War Industrial Communities, 1918-1919.

Director Town and County Survey Department, Interch.

World Movement, 1919-1920. Director Town and Country Surveys, Institute Social and Religious Research, 1921-1933.

Asso, in rural education Columbia Teachers College, 1926-1931, professor, 1931-1955, graduate faculty political science, 1940-1963, chairman Bureau Applied Social Research 1951-1963. Lecturer Western Connecticut State College, 1957-1967.

Lecturer New Zealand and Australia state universities, 1937.

Collaborator Bureau Agriculture Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, 1936-1954. Adviser Extension Service, 1942-1951.

Consultant Institute Social Research, U. Natal 1954.

Achievements

• Edmund De Schweinitz Brunner has been listed as a noteworthy sociologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American, Rural (president 1945) sociological societies, American Philatelic Society, American Philatelic Congress, Foreign Policy Association.

Connections

Married Mary Vogler, December 16, 1912 (deceased). Married second, Lousene Rousseau, November 6, 1948. Children: Edmund de Schweinitz, Wilfred Robert.

Father:

Franklin Henry Brunner

Mother:

Nina (de Schweinitz) Brunner

Spouse:

Lousene Rousseau

Spouse:

Mary Vogler

child:

Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner

child:

Wilfred Robert Brunner