With the rise of National Socialism (
National Socialism
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hit ...
,
Nazism) numerous artists, scientists and writers fled to other lands. Among them were many Austrian social scientists. Often they left because of their ancestry and frequently because of their political views. More than 350 names of social scientists (and sometimes their pseudonyms) are listed on the database at the University of Graz, Austria. A number of names are well known in America or Great Britain because it was there that they built new lives. The list is by no means complete and is based on the sole fact that each writer published at least one book or a number of journal articles.
Included among Austrian social scientists in exile are
Alfred Adler,
Otto Bauer,
Peter Blau, Berger,
Bruno Bettelheim,
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap (; ; 18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism. He ...
, Deutsch,
Peter Drucker,
Erik Erikson
Erik Homburger Erikson (born Erik Salomonsen; 15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological development of human beings. He coined the phrase identity cr ...
,
Hugo O. Engelmann,
Sigmund Freud, Heider, Keller,
Arthur Koestler, Lukács,
Karl Mannheim,
Karl Polanyi, Pollard,
Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the cl ...
, Possony, Schumpeter, Tietze, and Ullmann.
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20060206180118/http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/sozwww/agsoe/soz/oes/oes_e.htm
Sources
*Müller, Reinhard and Christian Fleck. 2000. "Österreichische Soziologinnen und Soziologen im Exil 1933 bis 1945," University of Graz.
Austria under National Socialism
Austrian expatriates
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