Adolf Sturmthal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolf Sturmthal

Political scientist and sociologist

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1903

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 11-Jun-1986

Profession: university teacher, opinion journalist

Nationality: United States, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Adolf Fox Sturmthal (born 10 September 1903 in Vienna, died 11 June 1986 in Avon, Connecticut) was a U.S.
political scientist, sociologist and journalist of Austrian birth who specialised in labour studies and international relations. Sturmthal earned a PhD in Political Science in 1925 at Vienna University.
He was chairman of the Association of Austrian Social Democratic Students and Academics.
He moved to Zurich in 1926 to assist Friedrich Adler, the secretary of the Labour and Socialist International, and was editor of International Information.
In 1933 and 1934 he organised international aid for German and Austrian socialist refugees from the Austrofascist Dollfuss and Nazi regimes.
Following prosecution for alleged passport abuse, he emigrated to Belgium and Great Britain and then to the United States in 1938.Sturmthal was the first Philip Murray Professor of International Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
From 1960 he was a professor of labour and industrial sociology at the University of Illinois.
The journal Foreign Affairs, reviewing a book to which Strumthal contributed, noted that Sturmthal's survey of foreign labor movements "will be of particular interest to readers of this journal."At the time of his death he lived in Champaign, Illinois.