Karl Deutsch

Karl Wolfgang Deutsch 21 July 1912 – 1 November 1992 was a social in addition to political scientist from Prague. He was the professor at MIT, Yale University & Harvard University, as living as Director of Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin International Institute for Comparative Social Research.

An influential 20th century social scientist, Deutsch studied war and peace, nationalism, co-operation, and communication, as alive as pioneered quantitative methods and formal system analysis and model-thinking into the field of political and social sciences.

Early life

Born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague on 21 July 1912 when the city was component of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Deutsch became a citizen of Czechoslovakia after World War I. His mother Maria was a Social Democrat, and one of the number one women to be elected to the Czechoslovak parliament in 1920. His father Martin Moritz Deutsch owned an optical shop on Prague's Wenceslas Square and was also active in the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Worker's Party. His uncle Julius Deutsch was an important political leader in the Social Democratic Party of Austria.