Alphons Silbermann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlphons Silbermann
German academic
Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1909
Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Date of Death: 04-Mar-2000
Profession: music critic, sociologist, musicologist
Nationality: Germany, Australia
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Alphons Silbermann
- Alphons Silbermann (August 11, 1909 – March 4, 2000) was a German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist. Born in Cologne, he studied musicology, sociology and law at the Universities of Cologne, Freiburg i.
- Br.
- and Grenoble.
- After he gained his doctorate (Dr.
- jur.), the rise of Nazism led Silbermann to emigrate to the Netherlands and 1938 from Amsterdam via Paris, where he worked as a waiter, to Sydney.
- In Australia he started as a dishwasher but went soon from rags to riches with his own fast food restaurant Silver's Food Bars.
- He initiated the first fastfood chain of Australia, becoming a successful entrepreneur.His academic career started in 1944 in Sydney at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music.
- As an empirical culture-sociologist, he went back to Europe (especially Paris) in 1951.
- In 1958 René König brought him back to Cologne, where he taught at the University.
- In 1964 he was called to the University of Lausanne as a successor of Vilfredo Pareto and later at the University of Bordeaux (1974–1979).Alphons Silbermann was a member of the "Cologne School" (Kölner Schule) along with René König and others.
- He was one of the editors of the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS) and founded the Institut für Massenkommunikation (Institute of Mass Communication).
- He was an important German pioneer of empirical methods, as against the ideological biases of many contemporary colleagues like his favorite opponent Theodor W.
- Adorno.
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