Background
Steiner, Kurt was born on June 10, 1912 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Jacob and Olga (Weil) Steiner. came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944.
educator lawyer political scientist
Steiner, Kurt was born on June 10, 1912 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Jacob and Olga (Weil) Steiner. came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944.
D.Jurisprudence, University Vienna, 1935. Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Stanford University, 1955. Doctorate (honorary), University Vienna, 1990.
Judicial assistant, later attorney, Vienna, 1935-1938; instructor, assistant director, then director, Berlitz Schools Langs., Cleveland, Pittsburgh, 1939-1943; prosecutor, special assistant to chief counsel, prosecution section, International Military Tribunal Far East, Tokyo, Japan, 1948; prosecuting attorney, legal section, Supreme Command Allies Pacific, Tokyo, 1948-1949; legislation attorney, later chief civil affairs and civil liberties branch, legislation and justice division, legal section, Supreme Command Allies Pacific, 1949-1951; visiting research scholar, Center International Studies, Princeton, 1954-1955; faculty, Stanford University, since 1955; professor political science, Stanford University, since 1962; associate executive head department, Stanford University, 1959-1963; Chairman of Commission, East Asian Studies, 1964-1965; director, Stanford in, Germany, summer 1961; director, Stanford Center Japanese Studies, Tokyo, 1962. Official escort Japanese Legal Education Mission to the United States, 1950-1951.
(Book by Steiner, Kurt)
(. dw, 1972, 443pp)
Served with Army of the United States, 1944-1948, PTO. Member American Political Science Association, Association Asian Studies, American Association of University Professors, Japanese American Society Legal Studies (councillor since 1965).
Son of; married Josepha (deceased 2003), Aug, 26, 1939.