Frederick Hertz
British academic (1878-1964)
Frederick Hertz (until 1946 Friedrich (Otto) Hertz, a pseudonym also: Germanus Liber; * 26 March 1878 in Vienna, † 20 November 1964 in London) was a British sociologist, economist and historian of Austrian origin.
Life and work
Hertz attended the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium in Vienna and studied after the Matura (1897) law and economics at the University of Vienna. From 1901 to 1902, he continued his studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, In 1903, he was at the University of Vienna with a thesis on the discount and foreign exchange policy of the Austro-Hungarian Bank (1892–1902) PhD. During his studies, Hertz joined the Austrian Social Democrats.
Before graduation, he already worked as a freelance writer in Vienna. This he put on after the promotion. From 1905 to 1906, he was the editor of The Way. Weekly journal of politics and culture (Vienna-Leipzig). Then, he worked for a trade association and a Swiss insurance company. In 1914, he married Edith Hirsch, a physician, with whom he had two children.
In First World War, Friedrich Otto Hertz served in the Austro-Hungarian army, in the last two years of war in the Scientific Committee for the war economy of the k.u.k.
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