John Peter Nettl (1926–1968) was a historian best known for his two-volume biography of
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg ( ; ; ; born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary and Marxist theorist. She was a key figure of the socialist movements in Poland and Germany in the early 20t ...
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The New York Times
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He was born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia. He went to school at Marlborough and Oxford. He served in British army intelligence during the Second World War. He worked briefly for his family's business, but in 1963 returned to academia as a reader in politics and social studies at Oxford then Leeds. He married Marietta Nettl and together they had three children. He had recently accepted a chair of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania when he was one of the 32 people killed (out of 42 total passengers and crew) when
Northeast Airlines Flight 946 crashed in Hanover, New Hampshire on October 25, 1968. He was traveling with his wife who survived and was treated for a fractured arm.
Works
* ''The Eastern Zone and Soviet Policy in Germany'' (1951)
* ''Rosa Luxemburg'' (1966)
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The Soviet Achievement' (1967)
* ''International Systems and the Modernization of Societies'' (1968, with
Roland Robertson
Roland Robertson (August 7, 1938 - April 29, 2022) was a sociologist and theorist of globalization who lectured at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Formerly, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 1988 he ...
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1926 births
1968 deaths
British biographers
British historians
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