Michael Schultheis

Michael James Schultheis SJ (born May 9, 1932 in Colton, Washington , USA; †  April 11, 2017 in Monrovia , Liberia ) was an American Jesuit , economist and university president.

Life

Michael Schultheis joined the religious order of the Jesuits in the religious province of Oregon and studied theology and philosophy at Gonzaga University (BA 1958) and Saint Mary's University of Minnesota (MA 1966). He received a PhD in economics from Cornell University with an emphasis on international agricultural development and worked for the Center of Concern in Washington, DC , a Catholic think tank on international developments. In 1980 he was one of the founders of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) , a global organization for the care of refugees and migrants, and worked for JRS in the General Secretariat of the Order in Rome and as director of the JRS for Africa in Nairobi for eleven years.

Schultheis was a professor in Tanzania , Uganda , Mozambique and Malawi for over twenty years . In the 1970s he taught at Makerere University in Uganda (1970–1973) and at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. At the Portuguese-speaking Catholic University of Mozambique , he initiated the first academic degree and a research and documentation center.

He was the first university president of the Catholic University of Ghana from 2003 to 2007 and coordinator and founding president of the Catholic University of South Sudan from 2007 to 2013 .

Most recently he worked as a professor at the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation of the University of Liberia in Monrovia, where he died in April 2017. Schultheis is buried in the cemetery of the Jesuit retreat house, St. Peter Claver House, in Cape Coast , Ghana.

Fonts

• The statistics of the world food problem: A review essay with an application to Uganda (Rural development research papers 121), Kampala: Makerere University 1972
• Occupation and mobility of Kigezi: A summary of a regional migration survey (Rural development research papers 124), Kampala: Makerere University 1973
• Economics and economic research in Uganda during the Amin period , Cornell University Staff Paper 1974
• The United States and the Changing International Economic Order . In: Interreligious Taskforce on US Food Policy (Ed.): Hunger . No. 4 , 1976, OCLC 3417031 , pp. 1-7 .
• Catholic social teaching and the church in Africa , Gweru / Zimbabwe: Mambo 1984, together with Edward P. DeBerri
• The World Bank and Accelerated Development: The Internationalization of Supply-Side Economics . In: African Studies Review . tape 27 , no. 4 , 1984, ISSN  0002-0206 , pp. 9-16 , doi : 10.2307 / 524054 .
• Refugees: The Structures of a Global Justice Issue , Washington: Center of Concern 1983
• Church and Mission in Africa: The social teaching of the church and the challenges of maturity , Washington: Center of Concern 1984
• Our best kept secret: The rich heritage of Catholic social teaching , Washington: Center of Concern 1985, together with Edward P. DeBerri and Peter J. Henriot, ISBN 978-0934255035 . Further editions until 2010 under the title Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret , Maryknoll: Orbis Books 1987, ISBN 9780883446324

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Peter Henriot: Requiescat in Pace Father Michael Schultheis, SJ. May 18, 2017, accessed June 9, 2017 . 
2. ^ Dated April 14th in South Sudan: Catholic University Mourns Founder. Catholic Information Service for Africa, April 21, 2017, accessed May 6, 2017 . 
3. ^ Tom Harvey: The Johnny Appleseed of the Sudan. In: ND Dean Woo: Ask More of Business. Mendoza College Initiatives for the Ethics and the Greater Good June 17, 2010, archived from the original June 21, 2010 ; accessed on May 6, 2017 . 
4. ^ Catholic University of Sudan Project Final Report. (pdf) Gonzaga University School of Engineering, April 22, 2010, accessed on May 6, 2017 .