Education
Born in Focșani, Romania in a Jewish Bessarabia-German family, he studied law in Strasbourg and worked as an advocate. Later he studied political economy in Vienna.
historian politician sociologist university professor
Born in Focșani, Romania in a Jewish Bessarabia-German family, he studied law in Strasbourg and worked as an advocate. Later he studied political economy in Vienna.
In 1894, he became academic reader for political law and economy at the University of Vienna. Among his students were Otto Bauer, Rudolf Hilferding and Karl Renner. 1912 he got the chair for history of economy at the university of Vienna.
After having suffered from a stroke, he retired in 1929 and left the Institute to Max Horkheimer.
Grünberg was one of the founders of Austromarxism. He established and edited a journal of labour and socialist history, the Zeitschrift für Socialund Wirthschaftsgeschichte and the Archiv für die Geschichte des Sozialismus und der sozialen Bewegung, a journal that is known today as the Grünberg-Archiv (Archive for the History of Socialism and the Workers" Movement).
In 1924 he became the first director of the Institute for Social Research, later known as the Frankfurt School.
Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.