persons Morgenstern, Oskar

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Name Morgenstern, Oskar
Alternative Names
ID 280
Gender male
Lifespan 1902-01-24 - 1977-07-26
Professions economist (Q188094), professor of economics
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  • Transatlantische Bereicherungen (Fleck, 2007)
  • Uri(s) https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/2_95
    Notes Oskar Morgenstern was a German-American economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory as applied to economics. Having emigrated to the United States in 1938, he became a US citizen in 1944. Upon visiting Vienna in 1947, he harshly criticized Austrian academia.
    References His archive of both published and unpublished work is to be found at Duke University. Fleck, Christian. "Oskar Morgenstern und das Wien des Jahres 1947." in: Return from Exile, 2017, 431-56. Selected Economic Writings of Oskar Morgenstern. Edited by Andrew Schotter, New York, New York University Press, 1976. Chaloupek, Günther. "The Influence of Emigrated Economists on Economic Thinking and Economic Policy in Post-War Austria." in: Return from Exile, 2017, 393-412.

    Relations

    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    1963 co-founder of Institut für Höhere Studien - Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)
    1931 1938 was head of Wiener Konjunkturforschungsinstitut
    1925 1928 was fellow of Rockefeller Foundation
    1970 1977 was professor at New York University
    1938 1938 was guest professor at Princeton University
    1938 1970 was professor at Princeton University
    1944 related American citizenship
    1925 graduated from University of Vienna
    1928 1938 taught at University of Vienna

    Person

    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    1963 related >> collaborated with Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix
    1938 1944 related >> collaborated with Neumann, John von

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1902-01-24 related >> born in Görlitz
    1977-07-26 related >> died in Princeton, NJ
    1914 1938 related >> lived at >> grew up in Vienna
    1938 related >> stayed in United States of America
    2012-11 related >> had named after him/herself Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz, 1090 Vienna
    1947-07-03 1947-07-25 related >> visited Vienna
    1947-06-10 1947-09-11 related >> stayed in Europe
    1938 related >> lived at Stadlergasse 3, 1130 Vienna

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