Alvin Saunders Johnson

Alvin S. Johnson
Born (1874-12-18)December 18, 1874
Homer, Nebraska
Died June 7, 1971(1971-06-07) (aged 96)
Upper Nyack, New York
Nationality American
Institution Cornell University
Alma mater University of Nebraska
Columbia University
Doctoral
advisor
Edwin R. A. Seligman
John Bates Clark
Doctoral
students
Frank H. Knight

Alvin Saunders Johnson (December 18, 1874 – June 7, 1971) was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School.

Biography

Alvin Johnson was born near Homer, Nebraska. He was educated at the University of Nebraska and Columbia (Ph.D., 1902). Afterwards, he was employed in various positions at Columbia, the University of Nebraska, the University of Texas, the University of Chicago, Stanford, and at Cornell after 1913.

He was assistant editor of the Political Science Quarterly in 1902-06, and editor from 1917 of the New Republic in New York City.

He was a co-founder of The New School in New York in 1918, becoming its director in 1922. Johnson helped to save numerous central European scholars from persecution by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s, then brought them to a specially-created division of the New School which became known as the "University in Exile". He was also an editor of the massive Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences.

He officially retired in December 1945, and died in 1971 in Upper Nyack, New York.

Major publications

Literature

References

  1. New School Web Site
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