Waldemar Gurian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Waldemar Gurian

American political scientist

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1902

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 26-May-1954

Profession: political scientist

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Waldemar Gurian (February 13, 1902 – May 26, 1954) was a Russian-born German-American political scientist, author, and professor at the University of Notre Dame.
He is regarded particularly as a theorist of totalitarianism.
He wrote widely on political Catholicism.Gurian was born into a Jewish family in 1902 in St.
Petersburg, Russia, and was brought to Germany in 1911 by his mother, who had him christened in 1914 as a Catholic.
He studied with political philosopher Carl Schmitt at the University of Bonn but disagreed on issues of political theology.
In 1939 after escaping Nazi Germany Gurian took a professorship at Notre Dame, where Gurian founded The Review of Politics.
The quarterly scholarly journal was modeled after German Catholic journals.
It quickly emerged as part of an international Catholic intellectual revival, offering an alternative vision to positivist philosophy.
For 44 years, the Review was edited by Gurian, Matthew Fitzsimons, Frederick Crosson, and Thomas Stritch.
Intellectual leaders included Gurian, Jacques Maritain, Frank O'Malley, Leo Richard Ward, F.
A.
Hermens, and John U.
Nef.
It became a major forum for political ideas and modern political concerns, especially from a Catholic and scholastic tradition.