Karl Schlesinger

Karl Schlesinger (January 19, 1889 – March 12, 1938) was an Austrian-Hungarian economist and banker.[1]

He was born in Budapest.[1] He studied law and economics at the University of Vienna, obtaining a doctorate under Eugene von Böhm-Bawerk in 1914.[2] Schlesinger's work, which made significant use of mathematics, would go on to be influential, but it was not received well by his fellow contemporary Austrian economists.[3][2]

He moved from Budapest to Vienna 1919, escaping Bela Kun's communist revolution.[1] He established a bank in Vienna. He participated in Ludwig von Mises's Austrian economics seminar.[4] He hired Karl Menger as his tutor in mathematics in 1931 and hired Abraham Wald in 1932 as his tutor.[4]

He committed suicide on March 12, 1938, as he expected persecution by the Nazis with Anschluss, Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria.[5][2] Schlesinger was Jewish.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Dokumentation, Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische (2003). "Schlesinger, Karl". ISBN 978-3-7001-3213-4 (in German). Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  2. ^ a b c d Neck, Reinhard (2019). "Perpetrators and victims: Austrian economists under the Nazis". Empirica. 46 (3): 537–546. doi:10.1007/s10663-019-09448-3. ISSN 1573-6911.
  3. ^ "Schlesinger, Karl". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  4. ^ a b "HET: Karl Schlesinger". History of Economic Thought. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  5. ^ Scherer, F. M. (2000). "The Emigration of German-Speaking Economists after 1933". Journal of Economic Literature. 38 (3): 614–626. ISSN 0022-0515.


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