Eugene M. Kulischer
Eugene M. Kulischer ( Russian Евгений Михайлович Кулишер / Jewgeni Michailowitsch Kulischer ; born September 4, 1881 in Kiev , Russian Empire ; died April 2, 1956 in Washington, DC ) was a Russian-American sociologist .
Life
Kulischer's father Michail Ignatjewitsch Kulischer (1847–1919) has already worked on demographic problems. Kulischer studied law at the University of St. Petersburg . He dealt with questions of demography , migration , population movement and the labor market. He was a recognized expert on Russia , documenting the number of people killed or perished in the Holocaust and researching population movements following the Second World War . The term displaced persons comes from him .
After the October Revolution , Kulischer fled from Russia to Germany in 1920, after the collapse of the Weimar Republic he fled to Denmark , in 1936 he went to Paris , in 1941 he fled from the occupied to the unoccupied part of France and from there via Spain and Portugal to the United States . In the USA, Kulischer prepared forecasts of refugee and migration movements as a result of the fighting for the Department of Defense and the Secret Service Office of Strategic Services and was employed, among other things, as an advisor to the International Labor Office, the Bureau of the Census and the Library of Congress .
He formulated the core principle of migration research that the history of man is the history of his migration movements .
Kulischer's brother Alexander Kulischer (1890–1942), with whom he published the first major study on migration in 1932, was arrested while fleeing in southern France and a victim of the Holocaust. His older brother Iossif Mikhailovich Kulischer (1878-1956) was a Russian-Soviet economist.
Fonts (selection)
- Alexander Kulischer; Eugen Kulischer: War and Migration, World History as a People's Movement , Berlin-Leipzig 1932
- The Displacement of Population in Europe , Montreal 1943
- Europe on the Move: War and Population Changes, 1917-1947 , New York 1948
literature
- Antonio Ferrara: Eugene Kulischer, Joseph Schechtman and the Historiography of European Forced Migrations in: Journal of Contemporary History , 2011, 46 (4) pp. 715–740
- Tobias Brinkmann: Place of Transition - Berlin as the interface of Jewish migration from Eastern Europe after 1918 . in: Verena Dohrn (Ed.): Transit and Transformation: Eastern European Jewish Migrants in Berlin 1918 - 1939 . Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2010 ISBN 978-3-8353-0797-1
- Karl Schlögel: Europe marshalling yard. Joseph B. Schechtmans and Eugene M. Kulischer's pioneering work , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History 2 (2005), pp. 468–472.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugene M. Kulischer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alexandra Fies: Emigration from Baden to North America in the 19th century with special consideration of the district of Karlsruhe between 1880 - 1914 . Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publ. 2009, p. 39f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kulischer, Eugene M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kulischer, Yevgeny Mikhailovich; Кулишер, Евгений Михайлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-American sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1956 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |