Eugen Pusić

Eugen Pusić (born July 1, 1916 in Zagreb ; † September 20, 2010 ) was a Yugoslav law scholar , university professor and politician .

biography

After attending school, he studied law at the University of Zagreb and graduated with a doctorate in 1939 . After the Second World War , he began working in the state administration and was head of social affairs at the People's Committee of Zagreb between 1945 and 1946 and then secretary (minister) for health and social issues of the Socialist Republic of Croatia between 1946 and 1955 .

He then began his career as a university lecturer and was first a lecturer in 1955 and then an associate professor , before he was appointed professor of law at the Faculty of Administrative Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 1961. He continued teaching until his retirement in 1986.

He was also a United Nations expert on social affairs several times and, from 1964 to 1965, adviser to the then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Sithu U Thant . For many years he was involved in the International Council for Social Welfare and was first a member of the Executive Committee from 1956 to 1960 and then Vice President, before he was finally President of this organization from 1964 to 1968. He was also President of the Association for Administrative Science and Administrative Practice of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) from 1976 to 1980

During his many years of teaching he was also visiting professor several times and taught as such at the University of Manchester in 1963 , in 1969 at the University of California, Berkeley , in 1970 at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1972 at the University of Chicago . He was also a visiting researcher ( Fellow ) at the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague , at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and in 1981 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars .

In recognition of his services, he became an associate member in 1975 and finally a full member in 1983 of the then Yugoslavian and now Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts . He was also a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Pusić wrote 35 specialist books and more than 1,300 specialist essays and articles and was not only awarded the Božidar Adžija Prize in 1965 , but also in 1970 the René Sand Prize, the highest award of the International Social Council , for his book Lokalna zajednica (Local Communities) Welfare, dear. In 1985 he published his book Društvena regulacija (Social Control) and in 1990 he was awarded the Vladimir Bakarić Prize for Upravni sistemi (Managing Systems). In addition, he was awarded the SFRJ Prize for his life's work.

Web links

• Akademik Eugen Pusić