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Richard Fritz Behrendt

Richard Fritz Behrendt

German sociologist

Richard Fritz Behrendt (6 February 1908 in Gliwice, Upper Silesia – 17 October 1972 in Basel) was a German sociologist.[1][2][3]

Life

Behrendt was born in Gliwice, Prussia (now Poland) on February 2, 1908. After studying business in Nuremberg, political science in Cologne and Basel (where he earned a doctorate in 1931), and at the London School of Economics, he worked as a journalist before obtaining a professorship at the University of Panama in 1935.[4]

From 1941 to 1943 he was a professor in the School of Inter-American Affairs at the University of New Mexico. After a stint at the Interamerican University of Panama, as director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, he moved to Colgate University in the US in the Fall of 1945, and was promoted to full professor of international affairs in 1946.[5] In 1950 he moved again to the University of Florida.[6]

He continued to work as a professor in the US until 1953, when he returned to Europe as an extraordinary professor of sociology at the University of Bern, becoming an ordinary professor in 1956. Beginning in 1960, he directed the institut de sociologie et des questions de développement socio-économique there. From 1965 to 1972 he was a professor of sociology at the Free University of Berlin.[4]

He died by suicide on 17 October 1972 in Basel.[4]

Selected publications

Behrendt's books included:

  • Die Schweiz und der Imperialismus, die Volkswirtschaft des hochkapitalistischen Kleinstaates im Zeitalter des politischen und ökonomischen Nationalismus (Zürich: Rascher & Co., 1932)[7][8]
  • Modern Latin America in Social Science Literature, a Selected, Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets, and Periodicals in English in the Fields of Economics, Politics, and Sociology of Latin America (University of New Mexico Press, 1949)[9]
  • Das Problem der "unentwickelten" Länder (Verwaltungs-und Wirtschaftsakademie Essen 2, Essen, 1956)[10]
  • Dynamische Gesellschaft: Über die Gestaltbarkeit der Zukunft (Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1963)[11]
  • L'homme à la lumière de la sociologie (Paris: Payot, 1964; translated from German by Lucien Piau[12]
  • Sozial Strategie für Entwicklungsländer (S. Fischer, 1965)[13]
  • Zwischen Anarchie und neuen Ordnungen: soziologische Versuche über Probleme unserer Welt im Wandel (Freiburg: Verlag Rombach, 1967)[14]

References

  1. [1]
    Windisch, Katja (2005), Gestalten sozialen Wandels: die Entwicklungssoziologie Richard F. Behrendts [Shaping Social Change: The development sociology of Richard F. Behrendt], Social Strategies, vol. 39, Bern: Peter Lang Verlag
  2. [2]
    Windisch, Katja (2002), "Betrachtungen zur Sozialen Entwicklungsstrategie und Sozioökonomie Richard F. Behrendts. Soziale Phänomene als Vorbedingungen ökonomischer Entwicklung", in Jäggi, Victoria; Mäder, Ueli; Windisch, Katja (eds.), Entwicklung, Recht, sozialer Wandel. Festschrift für Paul Trappe zum 70. Geburtstag, Social Strategies, vol. 35, Bern: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 74–84
  3. [3]
    Lüscher, Kurt (April 2014), "Richard F. Behrendt und das Berner Institut für Soziologie: Skizze einer persönlichen Würdigung" (PDF), VSH-Bulletin (in German), 40 (1), Vereinigung der Schweizerischen Hochschuldozierenden: 16–21
  4. [4]
    "Richard Fritz Behrendt", Dictionnaire Historique Suisse, 29 July 2010, retrieved 2024-04-19
  5. [5]
    "Former Teacher Here Named As Full Professor", Albuquerque Tribune, 26 July 1946
  6. [6]
    Wethey, Harold E. (November 1950), "Professional notes", The Hispanic American Historical Review, 30 (4): 559–567, JSTOR 2509318
  7. [7]
    Review of Die Schweiz und der Imperialismus: Sieveking, Heinr. (1932), Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft / Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (in German), 93 (3): 544–545, JSTOR 40746530{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. [8]
    Lasseb, Karim (2017), Le débat historiographique sur l'impérialisme suisse depuis l'étude de Richard Behrendt "Die Schweiz und der Imperialismus" (1932) (Master's thesis), University of Lausanne
  9. [9]
    Reviews of Modern Latin America in Social Science Literature:
  10. [10]
    Review of Das Problem der "unentwickelten" Länder: Stucken, Rudolf (1959), Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft / Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 115 (1.): 155, JSTOR 40748514{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  11. [11]
    Reviews of Dynamische Gesellschaft:
    • Claessens, Dieter (1964), Soziale Welt, 15 (2): 161, JSTOR 40876672{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Coser, Lewis A. (June 1964), American Sociological Review, 29 (3): 422–423, doi:10.2307/2091491, JSTOR 2091491{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Körner, Heiko (October 1964), Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft / Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 120 (4.): 754–756, JSTOR 40748854{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  12. [12]
    Reviews of L'homme à la lumière de la sociologie:
    • Arnaud, P. (1964), L'Année sociologique, Troisième série (in French), 15: 247–248, JSTOR 27886401{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Gellard, J. (1973), Archives de Philosophie (in French), 36 (2): 344, JSTOR 43036180{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Jacob, André (July–September 1965), Les Études philosophiques, Nouvelle Série (in French), 20 (3): 338–339, JSTOR 20844910{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Karady, Victor (1965), "Compte-rendu", Revue française de sociologie (in French), 6 (4): 531–532, JSTOR 3318987
  13. [13]
    Reviews of Sozial Strategie für Entwicklungsländer:
    • Clausen, Lars (1966), Soziale Welt, 17 (3): 283–285, JSTOR 40876824{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Donner, Wolf (1966), "Buchsbesprechungen" (PDF), Gewerkschaftlichen Monatshefte (in German): 310–311
    • Westphal-Hellbusch, Sigrid (1967), Sociologus, Neue Folge, 17 (1): 94–96, JSTOR 43644521{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  14. [14]
    Review of Zwischen Anarchie und neuen Ordnungen: SF (December 1967), Sozialer Fortschritt (in German), 16 (12): 287, JSTOR 24503314{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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