Johann Mokre
Johann Mokre (born June 4, 1901 in Bruck an der Mur / Styria , † December 26, 1981 in Graz ) was an Austrian sociologist and legal philosopher .
Live and act
After graduating from high school (1919), Mokre studied at the University of Graz : from 1919 to 1920 mathematics and physics , from 1920 to 1924 law and from 1925 to 1928 philosophy and physics. There he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD , 1925 Dr. rer. pole. and in 1928 Dr. phil. (Philosophy / physics). In 1931 he qualified as a professor for legal philosophy .
From 1932 to 1938 Mokre was a private lecturer , since 1937 with the status of a titular extraordinary university professor . His main occupation was at the same time in popular education (worker and unemployed education as an employee of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees in Styria ).
In 1938 he was dismissed, his license to teach at university was revoked, and in 1939 he was forced to retire as a university lecturer . Up to this point he had also published under the pseudonym Hans Mokre.
Mokre emigrated to the USA via Switzerland and Italy in June 1939 ; In 1946 he became a US citizen . After various academic activities, he was Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Barat College of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest , Illinois from 1945 to 1948 .
In March 1948 he returned to Graz and also to the University of Graz , where he initially worked for one semester as a visiting professor with a teaching assignment for legal philosophy , constitutional law and international law . In 1949 Mokre again took on Austrian citizenship . From 1949 to 1971 he was a full professor of law and political science at the University of Graz with a teaching obligation for legal philosophy, general political science and sociology . Mokre headed the Institute for Empirical Sociology and Statistics at the University of Graz from 1958 and, after the institute was split up into one for Statistics and one for Sociology, the Institute for Sociology from 1965 until his retirement in 1971.
In addition to his academic work, he is involved in adult education as a lecturer and board member of the Österreichische Urania für Steiermark , of which he was president from 1969 to 1981.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Mokre in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography in the archive for the history of sociology in Austria with bibliography (web.archive)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannes Galter et al. (Ed.): The Urania in Graz - 100 years of education and culture . Leykam, Graz 2019, ISBN 978-3-7011-8110-0 , pp. 402-407 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mokre, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mokre, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian and American legal scholar and sociologist, literary historian, poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruck an der Mur |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1981 |
| Place of death | Graz |