Ernest Manheim
Ernest Manheim | |
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Born | |
Died | 28 July 2002 Kansas City, Missouri, United States | (aged 102)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology, anthropology |
Ernest Manheim (27 January 1900 – 28 July 2002), known as Ernő until 1920, Ernst until 1934, and then Ernest in the United States, was an American
Life
Manheim attended a secondary school in Budapest from 1909 and graduated in 1917. Then he enrolled in the
After World War I he resumed his studies in chemistry and
From March to July 1919 Manheim was a volunteer in the Hungarian Soviet Republic or Republic of Councils founded by Béla Kun and was taken prisoner. He fled from the Romanian prison camp but could not stay in Budapest for long, since he had to face arrest as a supporter of the Soviet Republic. So he escaped to Austria in 1920, where he resumed his studies at the University of Vienna, first chemistry and physics and as of 1921 philosophy and history.
In 1923 he moved to
From 1926 to 1933 Manheim worked as Freyer's assistant without a regular budget at the Leipzig university where he also offered tutorials of his own. Her also taught at the Leipzig
In the British capital be began studies of sociology and
In 1937 Manheim emigrated to the US, and was naturalized as Ernest Manheim in 1943. In the beginning he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago (Illinois) which at the time was the stronghold of American empirical social research. Since then a combination of theoretical competence based on philosophy and methods of empirical social research was the peculiarity in Manheim's scientific work. Since 1940 he was professor of sociology at the University of Kansas City, Missouri, which was then a private institution and was to become part of the University of Missouri System in 1963.
In 1955/56 he spent a year as guest professor in
In 1928 Manheim married Anna Sophie Witters (1900–1988) from Osnabrück. They had one son Frank Tibor Manheim (*1930). In 1991 Manheim married the US-American psychologist Sheelagh Graham Bull (*1943 in Canada).
Ernest Manheim died in Kansas City in 2002 at the age of 102.
The Scholar
The years in Germany can be seen as the period of Manheim as a theorist. Educated in the sciences, in philosophy and in
It was typical of Manheim and the Leipzig School of Sociology to use historical argumentation.
The London years make up the phase of Manheim the anthropologist. He enhanced his work adding studies in cultural anthropology and approaches to social psychology The years in Chicago and Kansas City show Ernest Manheim the empirical researcher. He studied and wrote about the interrelation between urban life style and psychological disease, about juvenile problems, crime prevention, minorities and prejudices.
In practice Manheim was instrumental in improving the conditions for
The Composer
Manheim was also a composer. In Budapest and Vienna he attended conservatories besides his scientific studies. About 1922 he composed his Quintet for flute, viola, cello and lute. In Leipzig he created choir and song compositions, also for texts by Martin Luther, in London for texts of Irish and English poets. His work as a composer reached its peak in Kansas City, the most important works being the Introductory Music to the Chinese drama Der Kreidekreis. He composed a symphony, chorus music, madrigals, chamber music, and pieces for his grandchildren. The Volker String Quartet and the Kansas City Symphony, among others, have performed his compositions.[2]
Honours
- 1973: Thomas Jefferson Award of the University of Missouri
- 1997: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class[3]
- 1998: Dedication of the "Ernest Mannheim Hall" at the University of Kansas City, Missouri
- 2002: Award of honorary doctorate of the University of Leipzigon his 100th birthday
Works (selection)
- Zur Logik des konkreten Begriffs. München: C.H. Beck’sche Verlagshandlung 1930, XI, 156 S.
- Die Träger der Öffentliche Meinung. Studien zur Soziologie der Öffentlichkeit, Verlag Rudolf M. Rohrer, Brünn/Prag/Leipzig/Wien 1933.
- Aufklärung und öffentliche Meinung. Studien zur Soziologie der Öffentlichkeit im 18. Jahrhundert. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Norbert Schindler, frommann/holzboog, Stuttgart/Bad Cannstatt 1979 (= Kultur und Gesellschaft, neue historische Forschungen. 4.), new edition
- Beiträge zu einer Geschichte der autoritären Familie, in: "Studien über Autorität und Familie. Forschungsberichte aus dem Institut für Sozialforschung", zu Klampen, Lüneburg 1987 (= Institut für Sozialforschung. Schriften. 5.), pp. 523–574
- Youth in trouble. City of Kansas City, Missouri. Released by The Community Service Division, Department of Welfare. Kansas City, Missouri, 1945
Further reading
- J. Maier: Manheim, Ernst, in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf/Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon, Bd. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1984, p. 536. ISBN 3-432-90702-8
- Charles Reitz, Frank Baron, David N Smith (eds.): Authority, Culture and Communication: the Sociology of Ernest Manheim, Heidelberg 2005 ISBN 3-935025-57-2 (compilation of essays, partly German, partly English)[4]
References
- ^ This English translation is used by Reitz in Authority, Culture and Communication, pp.27ff. .
- ^ A complete list of Manheim's compositions can be found in Frank.T.Manheim: Ernest Manheim: Sociologist and Composer in Reitz / Baron/Smith: pp. 145-148
- ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 1140. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
- ^ table of contents online here
External links
- Ernest Manheim in the German National Library catalogue
- An exhibition on Manheim's 100th birthday at the University of Graz (including a short video interview)
- portrait and short biography at the website of UMKC