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Alexander Gerschenkron (1904 - 1978)

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29 May 2012 at 3:53pm | IP Logged 
A famous Harvard economic historian who lived from 1904 to 1978. He knew English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Swedish, and Latin. I saw this description of him today written by one of his students:

Had I been raised in Odessa with a French governess and fled the revolution in 1919 to Romania and thence to university in Vienna, and then left the Anschluss behind for the United States, like my supervisor in graduate school, Alexander Gerschenkron, I would doubtless have been able to pick up, as he did, Swedish in a week and Portuguese in an afternoon.


Edited by Fasulye on 29 May 2012 at 7:23pm

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29 May 2012 at 7:59pm | IP Logged 
newyorkeric wrote:
..Swedish in a week and Portuguese in an afternoon.

that's not an exaggeration but an "exaggerated exaggeration"

Edited by tmp011007 on 29 May 2012 at 7:59pm

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