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Peter Blau

1918 - 2002

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Peter Michael Blau (February 7, 1918 – March 12, 2002) was an Austrian and American sociologist and theorist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to the United States in 1939. He completed his PhD doctoral thesis with Robert K. Merton at Columbia University in 1952, laying an early theory for the dynamics of bureaucracy. The next year, he was offered a professorship at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1953 to 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Blau is the 69th most popular sociologist (down from 61st in 2019), the 948th most popular biography from Austria (down from 813th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Peter Blau ranks 69 out of 79. Before him are Claus Offe, Henri Hubert, Göran Therborn, Loïc Wacquant, Louis Wirth, and Anthony D. Smith. After him are Theda Skocpol, Margaret Archer, John Urry, Robert Nisbet, Rodney Stark, and Tatyana Zaslavskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Peter Blau ranks 249. Before him are Cachao, René Rémond, Lohengrin Filipello, Artur Brauner, Werner Peters, and Gunnel Vallquist. After him are Jacques Baratier, Jorge Illueca, Hans Berglund, Horacio Casarín, Said Mohamed Jaffar, and Jopie Selbach. Among people deceased in 2002, Peter Blau ranks 260. Before him are Hans-Peter Tschudi, Carmelo Bene, Yuji Hyakutake, Vernon A. Walters, John R. Pierce, and Jan de Hartog. After him are Hellmuth Marx, Chaim Potok, Mikayil Abdullayev, Anatoli Bashashkin, David Todd Wilkinson, and Mariya Smirnova.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Peter Blau ranks 948 out of 1,424. Before him are Friederich Franzl (1905), Eva Ibbotson (1925), Felix Kaspar (1915), Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878), Helena Kottler Vurnik (1882), and André Heller (1947). After him are Josef Hassmann (1910), Franz West (1947), Reinhard Furrer (1940), Luise Fleck (1873), Eva Pawlik (1927), and Franz Antel (1913).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among sociologists born in Austria, Peter Blau ranks 3. Before him are Paul Lazarsfeld (1901), and Peter L. Berger (1929).

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