Egon Sohmen
Egon Sohmen (born June 1, 1930 in Linz , † March 8, 1977 in Heidelberg ) was a German-Austrian economist .
life and work
He studied at the University of World Trade in Vienna, as a Fulbright scholarship holder in Kansas, received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1954 and received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 , supervised by Charles P. Kindleberger . Then Sohmen was Assistant Professor at Yale University, returned to Europe in 1960 and taught from 1961 to 1969 as a full professor at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. In the summer semester of 1969, he accepted a call to Heidelberg University , where, apart from a guest stay at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, he taught until his death in 1977.
His research made important contributions to the theory of exchange rates . In addition, he made a contribution to an allocation theoretical foundation of economic policy , especially in the German-speaking area.
literature
- Switgard Feuerstein : Sohmen, Egon. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 541 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Egon Sohmen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at the Egon Sohmen Graduate Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- Franz-Ulrich Willeke: Obituary. JSTOR 40750042
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sohmen, Egon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1977 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |