| LC control no. | n 50049998 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Levi, Werner, 1912-2005 |
| Birth date | 1912-03-23 |
| Death date | 2005-02-06 |
| Place of birth | Halberstadt (Germany) |
| Place of death | Honolulu (Hawaii) |
| Field of activity | Political science World politics |
| Affiliation | University of Minnesota University of Hawaii (Honolulu) |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers |
| Found in | His American-Australian relations, 1947. Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), June 23, 2008 (Werner Levi; b. Mar. 23, 1912, Halberstadt, Germany; d. Feb. 6, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii; immigrated to United States, 1940; University of Minnesota, Ph. D., 1944; University of Hawaii, professor of political science, beginning 1963) encyclopedia.com, February 26, 2020 (Levi, Werner 1912-2005; born March 23, 1912 in Halberstadt, Germany; died of complications from Parkinson's disease on February 6, 2005 in Honolulu, HI; a former professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, Levi was widely recognized as an authority on international politics; when the Nazis came to power, Levi fled to the United States, where he attended the University of Minnesota, earning a master's degree in 1943 and a Ph. D. in political science the following year; remaining in Minneapolis, he accepted a teaching job at the university in 1944, rising to full professor in 1951; in 1963, he moved to Honolulu to join the University of Hawaii faculty; as a talented violinist, he also played for the Honolulu Symphony; Levi retired in 1976; Levi was widely recognized as an authority on such subjects as cold war policy and the politics of the Soviet Union, China, and Vietnam; he was the author of several books, including Fundamentals of World Organization (1950), Modern Chinese Foreign Policy (1953), The Challenge of World Politics in South and Southeast Asia (1968), Law and Politics in the International Society (1976), The Coming End of War (1981), and Contemporary International Law (1991)) |
| Associated language | eng |
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