Harry Gideonse

Gideonse was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to Martin Cornelius and Johanna Jacoba Helena Magdalena (de Lange) Gideonse.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3IsYAAAAIAAJ&q=Harry+D.+Gideonse+%22rotterdam%22|title=Current Biography Yearbook|first=Maxine|last=Block|date=1968|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|isbn=9780824204778|via=Google Books}} His family emigrated to the United States in 1904, settling in Rochester, New York, where Gidonese attended elementary school.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/14/nyregion/dr-harry-d-gideonse-dead-ex-head-of-brooklyn-college.html|title=Dr. Harry D. Gideonse Dead; Ex-Head of Brooklyn College|first=Walter H.|last=Waggoner|newspaper=The New York Times|date=14 March 1985}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wp-a60iP6KoC&q=Harry+D.+Gideonse+%22rotterdam%22|title=Frances R. Grant's Pan American Activities, 1929-1949|first=David Mark|last=Carletta|date=2009|publisher=Michigan State University. History|via=Google Books}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Xo4AAAAMAAJ&q=Harry+D.+Gideonse+%22rotterdam%22|title=A City College in Action: Struggle and Achievement at Brooklyn College, 1930-1955|first=Thomas Evans|last=Coulton|date=1955|publisher=Harper|via=Google Books}}

He married Edmee Koch, of Geneva, Switzerland.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=047hAAAAMAAJ&q=Harry+D.+Gideonse+%22rotterdam%22|title=Hollanders who Helped Build America|first1=Bernard Hubertus Maria|last1=Vlekke|first2=Henry|last2=Beets|date=1942|publisher=American Biographical Company|via=Google Books}} They had two sons.{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-03-15-8501140946-story.html|title=HARRY D. GIDEONSE, 83; HEADED BROOKLYN COLLEGE|first=N. Y. Times News|last=Service|website=chicagotribune.com}}

He attended Columbia University (B.S. in economics, 1923; A.M. in Economics, 1924), and the University of Geneva's Graduate Institute of International Studies (1928).[https://library.newschool.edu/archives/findingaids/NS010201.html#ref79 "Biographical note"], New School for Social Research Libraries & Archives.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kb1A6PtcxXYC&q=Harry+D.+Gideonse+%22rotterdam%22|title=American higher education a documentary history|date=1961|via=Google Books}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_MIAQAAMAAJ&q=Harry+D.+Gideonse+%22rotterdam%22|title=American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory|first=James McKeen|last=Cattell|date=1968|publisher=Bowker|via=Google Books}}

At Rutgers University, beginning in 1928 he was as assistant professor of economics. At the University of Chicago, Gideonse was an associate professor of economics. He also taught economics at Barnard College (where he was Chairman of the Departments of Economics from 1938 to 1939 and Sociology) and Columbia University.

Gideonse was the second President of Brooklyn College, from 1939 to 1966. During his tenure Brooklyn College was one of the top colleges in the US in terms of the number of alumni receiving doctorate degrees. In the 1940s Gideonse made novel changes in the college curriculum with a greater emphasis on electives, an approach that later became standard in colleges.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tntEAgAAQBAJ&q=Harry+D.+Gideonse&pg=PA91|title=International Dictionary of University Histories|first1=Mary Elizabeth|last1=Devine|first2=Carol|last2=Summerfield|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134262175|via=Google Books}} In May 1983, Brooklyn College renamed its library in his honor.

He was Chancellor of the New School for Social Research from 1966 until 1975, when he retired.

Gideonse wrote Transfert des réparations et le plan Dawes (1928), The International Bank, The Higher Learning in a Democracy, The Economic Policy of the United States, Introductory General Course in the Study of Contemporary Society (1939), American Policy in Indonesia (1949), The economic foreign policy of the United States (1953), On the Educational Statesmanship of a Free Society (1959), Against the Running Tide (1967), and The Year 2000: The Future Planners and Education (1969), and co-wrote a number of other books.Harry D. Gideonse [https://books.google.com/books?id=qxy2wgEACAAJ Against the Running Tide (1967)]{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_t1OvwEACAAJ&q=Harry+D.+Gideonse|title=The economic foreign policy of the United States|first=Harry David|last=Gideonse|date=1953|publisher=National Bank of Egypt|via=Google Books}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEutvgEACAAJ&q=Harry+D.+Gideonse|title=The Year 2000: The Future Planners and Education|first=Harry David|last=Gideonse|date=1969|publisher=Educational Research Council|via=Google Books}}Harry David Gideonse. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Kn3dAAAAIAAJ American Policy in Indonesia – Google Books]Harry David Gideonse. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rwkjAAAAMAAJ Transfert des réparations et le plan Dawes – Google Books]Harry David Gideonse. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1Pk1AQAAIAAJ The economic foreign policy of the United States – Google Books]Harry David Gideonse. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NescAQAAMAAJ Introductory General Course in the Study of Contemporary Society (Social Science I) – University of Chicago – Google Books]Harry David Gideonse. [https://books.google.com/books?id=PnEXAAAAIAAJ On the Educational Statesmanship of a Free Society – Google Books]Harry David Gideonse. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oleJwgEACAAJ The Year 2000: The Future Planners and Education – Google Books]

He served on the executive committee of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. He was chairman of the board for a number of years of Freedom House and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3cIHAAAAMAAJ&q=Harry+D.+Gideonse&pg=PA547|title=Subversive Influence in the Educational Process: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws to the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session[-Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session]|first=United States Congress Senate Committee on the|last=Judiciary|date=1952|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}

Gideonse, who had lived in Great Neck, New York, and in East Setauket, New York, died on March 12, 1985, at the age of 83 in the Port Jefferson New York Nursing Home, three weeks after his wife died.

• {{cite book |author= Gideonse, Harry D. |title= Organized Scarcity and Public Policy |place= Chicago, IL |publisher= The University of Chicago Press (Public Policy Pamphlet No. 30) |editor = Gideonse, Harry D. |year= 1939 |url= https://archive.org/details/public-policy-pamphlets_1939_30/mode/2up?view=theater |via =Internet Archive}}
• {{cite book |author1 = Preminger, Alexander S. |author2 = Ciolli, Antoinette |author3 = Lester, Lillian |title= Urban Educator: Harry Gideonse, Brooklyn College and City University of New York: An Annotated Bibliography |publisher= Twayne Publishers, Inc. |place = 1970 |url= https://archive.org/details/urbaneducator0000harr/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater |url-access= registration |year= 1970 |via= Internet Archive}}

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• {{cite journal |author= Waggoner, Walter H. |title= DR. HARRY D. GIDEONSE DEAD; EX-HEAD OF BROOKLYN COLLEGE |journal= The New York Times |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/14/nyregion/dr-harry-d-gideonse-dead-ex-head-of-brooklyn-college.html |date= March 14, 1985}}
• [https://library.newschool.edu/archives/findingaids/NS010201.html#ref90 "Harry Gideonse records; 1944-1975, bulk 1952-1975"], New School for Social Research Libraries & Archives.
• {{Internet Archive author |sname= Harry David Gideonse}}

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