Ludwig von Bertalanffy
- Von Bertalanffy born Vienna, 1901
- Father Gustav is a raliroad administrator
- home schooled, self-educated at Univ of Vienna
- Von Bertalanffy married Maria, Vienna, 1925
- Von Bertalanffy earns PhD with Schlick of the Vienna Circle, 1926.
- thesis on Fechner
- Von Bertalanffy's first book, organicism, 1928,
- translated to English by Woodger, 1933
- Von Bertalanffy promoted professor, Univ ofVienna, 1934
- Von Bertalanffy spends one year at Univ of Chicago, 1937-38
- Awarded fellowship by Rockefeller Foundation
- Wanted to remain in US but nor permitted
- Von Bertalanffy's second book, open systems, 1940
- Von Bertalanffy leaves Vienna for good, 1948
- Wanders 13 years:
- Bern, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Stanford
- Los Angeles (3 yrs), Topeka (3 yrs), Buffalo
- General Systems Theory created by Von Bertalanffy ca 1950
- Book, General System Theory :
a New Approach to Unity of Science, 1951
- Book, Problems of Life;
an Evaluation of Modern Biological Thought, 1952
- Von Bertalanffy at Stanford with Gerard, Rapoport, and Boulding, 1954
- Society for General Systems Research created, 1956, by Von Bertalanffy, Gerard, Rapoport, and Boulding
- Von Bertalanffy to Alberta, 1961
- Book, General Systems Theory:
Foundations, Development, Applications, 1968
- Von Bertalanffy to Buffalo, 1969
- Von Bertalanffy dies, 1972
Revised 21 June 2002 by Ralph Abraham,
<abraham@vismath.org>
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