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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Prof. Friedrich August von Hayek
PROF. FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
Awarded by
President George Bush
November 18, 1991
Friedrich August von Hayek has done more than any thinker of our age to explore the promise and contours of liberty. He grew up in the shadow of Hitler's tyranny and devoted himself at an early age to the nurture of institutions that preserve and expand freedom, the lifeblood of a full life. The Road to Serfdom still thrills readers everywhere, and his subsequent works inspire people throughout the world because they possess the vigor and feel of real life--not just the hollow ring of abstract theory. Professor von Hayek has revolutionized the world's intellectual and political life. Future generations will read his works with the same sense of discovery and awe that inspire us today.
Biography
Friedrich August von Hayek – Curriculum Vitae
Born: May 8, 1899, Vienna, Austria (son of Dr. August von Hayek,
Professor of Botany at the University of Vienna and Felicitas née Juraschek)
Education
1918-1921
Studies at University of Vienna
1921
Dr. jur., University of Vienna
1923
Dr. rer. pol, University of Vienna
March 1923 -June1924
Postgraduate work, New York University
Academic Appointments
1927-1931
Director, Österreichisches Institut für Konjunkturforschung (Austrian Institute for Trade Cycle Research)
1931-1950
Tooke Professor of Economic Science and Statistics, University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science)
1950-1962
Professor of Social and Moral Science, University of Chicago
(Committee on Social Thought)
1962-1968
Professor der Volkwirtschaftslehre, Albert- Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau
At various dates, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Stanford,
Arkansas, Virginia, California (Los Angeles), Cape Town and Salzburg
Honors and Fellowships
1944
Fellow, British Academy
1970
Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
1972
Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics
Honorary Degrees
1964
Dr. jur. h.c., Rikkyo University, Tokyo
1971
Ehrensenator der Universität Wien
1974
Dr. jur. h.c., Universität Salzburg
Others
1917-1918
War service, Austro-Hungarian Army (Italian Front)
1921-1926
Legal Consultant, Austrian government, for carrying out provisions of Peace Treaty
Books Published
Geldtheorie und Konjunkturtheorie , Wien, 1929, also in English as Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle , London, 1933, as well as in Spanish and Japanese translations.
Prices and Production , London, 1931, also in German, Chinese, French and Japanese translations.
Monetary Nationalism and International Stability , London, 1937.
Profits, Interest, and Investment, London 1939.
The Pure Theory of Capital , London, 1940, also in Japanese and Spanish translations.
The Road to Serfdom , London and Chicago, 1944, also in Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish translations.
Individualism and Economic Order , London and Chicago, 1949, also in German and an abridged Norwegian translation.
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor , London and Chicago, 1951.
The Counter-Revolution of Science , Chicag,o 1952, also in German, Italian and an abridged French translation.
The Sensory Order , London and Chicago, 1952.
The Constitution of Liberty , London and Chicago, 1960, also in Spanish, German and Italian translations.
Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics , London and Chicago, 1967.
Freiburger Studien , Tübingen 1969.
Law, Legislation and Liberty, vol. I, Rules and Order , London and Chicago, 1973.
Edited by F. A. Hayek
Beiträge zur Geldtheorie , Wien, 1931.
Collectivist Economic Planning , London, 1935, also in French and Italian translations.
Capitalism and the Historians , London and Chicago, 1954, also in Italian translation.
From Nobel Lectures, Economic Sciences 1969-1980.
Addendum: Friedrich August von Hayek died in 1992 .
President George Bush's Statement on the Death of Friedrich August von Hayek March 23, 1992
Barbara and I are saddened by the death of Friedrich August von Hayek. I presented him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 because he was one of the great thinkers of our age who explored the promise and contours of liberty. Professor von Hayek revolutionized the world's intellectual and political life. Future generations will read and benefit from his works.
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