Josef Herbert Furth (J. Herbert Furth, October 12, 1899,

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, Austria – March 6, 1995,

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, United States) was an Austrian and American

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M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives / University Libraries / University at Albany / State University of New York He was the son of Ernestine von Fürth, née "Kisch", the founder and leader of the women's suffrage movement in

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and Emil von Fürth (1863 - 1911), an Austrian lawyer and politician. In 1938, after Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany Furth and his mother emigrated to the

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Career

Professor of Economics, Lincoln University, Lincoln, PA, 1939–1943; Lecturer at

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, Washington, D.C, 1945–1950; Adjunct Professor (Lecturer) at The American University, Washington, D.C. 1950–1966; Visiting professor, International University of Luxembourg, 1960; Lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute, 1966–1974. He served with the

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as economic specialist (1943–1967), Chief of the Eastern European and Near Eastern Section (1948–1952), Chief of the Western European and Commonwealth Section (1952–1956), Chief of the International Financial Operations Section (1956–1957), Associate Adviser (1957–1960), Adviser and Associate Economist to the Federal Open Market Committee (1961–1964), Consultant (1964–1967).

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1899 births 1995 deaths 20th-century American economists Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United States Catholic University of America faculty American people of Austrian-Jewish descent People from Chevy Chase, Maryland {{US-economist-stub