Carl j friedrich biography of barack

German-American academic, writer and political theorist

"Carl Friedrich" redirects here. For other uses, see Carl Friedrich (disambiguation).

Carl Joachim Friedrich (; German:[ˈfʀiːdʀɪç]; June 5, 1901 – September 19, 1984) was a German-American professor and political theorist.

He taught alternately at Harvard and Heidelberg until his retirement in 1971. His writings on state and constitutional theory, constitutionalism and government made him one of the world's leading political scientists in the post-World War II period.

Carl j friedrich biography of barack

He is one of the most influential scholars of totalitarianism.

Biography

Early years in Germany: 1901–1936

Born on June 5, 1901, in Leipzig, in the Kingdom of Saxony in the German Empire, Friedrich was the son of renowned professor of medicine Paul Leopold Friedrich, the inventor of the surgical rubber glove, and a Prussian countess of the von Bülow family.

He attended the Gymnasium Philippinum from 1911 to 1919, where