Alexander Gerschenkron | |
|---|---|
Александр Гершенкрон | |
| Born | 1 October 1904 Odessa, Russian Empire (now Odesa, Ukraine) |
| Died | 26 October 1978 (aged 74) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Influences | Max Weber |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economic history |
| School or tradition | Historical School |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Influenced | |
Alexander Gerschenkron (Russian: Александр Гершенкрон; 1 October 1904 – 26 October 1978) was an American economic historian and professor at Harvard University, trained in the German Historical School of economics.
Born into a Jewish family in Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine, Gerschenkron fled the country during the Russian Civil War in 1920 to Austria, where he attended the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1928. After the Anschluss in 1938, he emigrated to the United States.