Frederic Pryor

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Frederic LeRoy Pryor (born April 23, 1933 in Owosso , Michigan - † September 2, 2019 in Newtown Square , Pennsylvania ) was an American economist .

Life and career

Pryor was born in 1933 to Millard and Mary Pryor.

He first studied chemistry at Oberlin College (BA 1955). He received an MA from Yale University in 1957 and then attended the Free University of Berlin (East European Studies) from 1959 to 1961 . In August 1961 Pryor was arrested by the Stasi. It was assumed that he had wanted to get rid of the personal belongings of refugees from the GDR . Through efforts of James B. Donovan he was released on February 10, 1962 in the course of the prisoner exchange of the Russian spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel against the U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers at Checkpoint Charlie .

In 1962 he received his Ph.D. at Yale and became an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan . In 1964 he moved to the Economic Growth Center at Yale University, where he did research until 1966. In 1967 he was first assistant, later associate professor at Swarthmore College , from 1972 until his retirement in 1998 ord. Prof.

As a visiting professor, Pryor conducted research in 1967 at Lincoln University and in 1969 at the International Development Research Center of Indiana University . In 1972/73 he did research as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley (anthropology and sociology).

In popular culture

Pryor's arrest in East Berlin in 1961 and his release during the prisoner exchange on February 10, 1962 were portrayed in Steven Spielberg's 2015 feature film Bridge of Spies - The Negotiator . The role of Frederic Pryor was played by actor Will Rogers . Pryor praised the film, although it took some liberties with regard to its story.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frederic LeRoy Pryor. In: prabook.com , accessed on September 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ In Honor of Professor Emeritus of Economics Frederic L. Pryor swarthmore.edu, accessed on September 12, 2019
  3. ↑ a b The broker of the agents at spiegel.de, accessed on December 14, 2015
  4. ^ Powers is Freed by Soviet in an Exchange for Abel; U-2 Pilot on Way to US at nytimes.com, accessed December 14, 2015
  5. ^ Bridge of Spies (2015) at historyvshollywood.com, accessed December 14, 2015
  6. ↑ Economist Frederic Pryor Recounts Life as a 'Spy' at swarthmore.edu, accessed December 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Pryor, Frederic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pryor, Frederic L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Owosso , Michigan , United States
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 2019
Place of death Newtown Square , Pennsylvania , United States