Year: 1988
Type: article
Abstract: Nathan Leites, a political scientist who deeply influenced many scholars in a wide variety of fields, died in Avignon, France, early in June 1987.He had suffered from Parkinson's disease and associated illnesses for several years.Leites was born in St. Petersburg in 1911.His family was of Sephardic Jewish origin-his mother medically trained and his father, Kussiel Leites, an economist and journalist associated with the Mensheviks.The family left Russia for Denmark soon after the Bolsheviks took power.Leites later received what he described as a typical gymnasium education, mostly in Germany.Leites was finishing his graduate studies in economics at the University of Berlin in 1933 when the advent to power of the Nazis made it suddenly clear to him that his professional future would not unfold in Germany.Soon after he took a doctorate in economics at Fribourg, Switzerland.At this time he considered an academic career in classical economics feasible but not inspiring, and found it even less so when the post offered him was one at Birmingham University, the outcome of an interview with a deputy of J. M. Keynes at Cambridge.He declined the position.Instead, in 1935, he came to the United States to take up a fellowship at Cornell University.
Source: PS Political Science & Politics
Author: Elizabeth Wirth Marvick
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2328599426