!!!Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix

b. Vienna, Feb. 13, 1901, 
d. New York (USA), Aug. 30, 1976, sociologist, mathematician; husband 
of M.  Jahoda. Member of the Vienna University Institute of 
Psychology, taught from 1933 in the USA, President of the Institute 
for Social Radio Research in Princeton, from 1940-1969 teacher at 
Columbia University, New York, from 1969-1976 university professor at 
the University of Pittsburgh. In 1963 founded the  Institut fuer 
Hoehere Studien (Institute of Advanced Studies) in Vienna together 
with O.  Morgenstern. His works on the methodology of empirical social 
research were crucial to the development of a quantitative analysis of 
social and political processes.

!Works
Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal, 1933 (with M. Jahoda and H. 
Zeisel); Radio Research, 1941 (with F. N. Stanton); Mathematical 
Thinking in the Social Sciences, 1954; Persoenlicher Einfluss und 
Meinungsbildung, 1962; Am Puls der Gesellschaft, 1968; Wahlen und 
Waehler, 1969.

!Literature
W. R. Langenbucher (ed.), P. F. L., 1990; S. 
Reichard-Kuerzel, P. F. L., master's thesis, Vienna 1996; NDB.



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