William Fellner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Fellner

Hungarian economist and author

Date of Birth: 31-May-1905

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 15-Sep-1983

Profession: writer, economist, university teacher, statistician

Nationality: Hungary, United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

William John Fellner (born Fellner Vilmos on May 31, 1905 – September 15, 1983) was a Hungarian American economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University from 1952 until his retirement in 1973.
Born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the University of Budapest, the ETH Zurich and the Frederick William University in Berlin, where he received his Ph.D.
in economics in 1929, one year after Wassily Leontief.
Fellner served on the Council of Economic Advisers from 1973 to 1975.