Education
University of Minnesota. University of Michigan. Amherst College.
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University of Minnesota. University of Michigan. Amherst College.
Born in Vienna, Austria, Neumann received degrees from the University of Rennes, the Consular Academy of Austria, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland (formerly Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales, HEI) and the University of Michigan. During his studies in Geneva, Neumann was arrested by the Nazis and spent two years in a concentration camp. Upon his release, he left for America, where in 1940 he received a Master of Arts from Amherst College.
After a brief stint teaching at the State Teachers" College in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Neumann enlisted and served during World World War World War II Upon his return, he took up a job teaching political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
In 1946 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. The following year he took a post at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he eventually became a tenured professor
In 1966 he was named by President Lyndon B. Johnson as ambassador to Afghanistan. At the time, the position was not necessarily a permanent one, and Neumann was granted a leave of absence from University of California, Los Los Angeles However, by 1970, Neumann felt compelled to remain at work at the Embassy, and resigned his professorship at the school.
After serving in Afghanistan, Neumann became the ambassador to Morocco in 1973.
Upon his return to Washington, District of Columbia in 1976, he began teaching again at Georgetown University, while taking the director"s helm of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. In 1981, Neumann was once again called into the diplomatic community, this time as Ronald Reagan"s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. However, he abruptly resigned that same year due to a personal conflict with then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig.
He remained a fellow at Georgetown University until his retirement in the early 1990s.
Neumann died in 1999 in Bethesda, Maryland at the age of 83.
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