biography
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Friedrich, Carl J(oachim)
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pronunciation:
[freedrikh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1901–84)
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| biography:
| Political scientist, born in Leipzig, EC Germany. Educated in Germany, he emigrated to the USA in 1922 and began a long teaching career at Harvard (1926–71). He also served as a government adviser to Germany (1946–9), and to Puerto Rico in the 1950s. A prolific writer on comparative political thought, his analyses of totalitarianism and communism were particularly controversial. His book, An Introduction to Political Theory (1967), concluded that people favour a minimum rather than a maximum of freedoms. |
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