Ruth S. Morgenthau
{{short description|American professor and advisor to Jimmy Carter}}
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| birth_name = Ruth Schachter
| birth_date = January 26, 1931
| birth_place = Vienna, Austria
| death_date = November 4, 2006 (aged 75)
| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts
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| nationality = American
| alma_mater = Barnard College
Institut d'Études Politiques
Oxford
| occupation = Professor
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| spouse = {{marriage|Henry Morgenthau|1962}}
| children = 3 (including Kramer)
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Ruth Schachter Morgenthau (January 26, 1931 – November 4, 2006), was a professor of international politics at Brandeis University and an advisor to President Jimmy Carter on rural development in poor countries.
Biography
She was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 26, 1931, as Ruth Schachter. Her parents, Osias Schachter and Mizia (Kramer) Schachter, owned a textile importing company until they fled from the Nazis in 1940. She graduated from Barnard College in 1952, then attended the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris as a Fulbright scholar. In 1958, she received a doctorate in politics from Oxford.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}
She was a member of the United States Mission to the United Nations, and in 1988 ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Congress in Rhode Island.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/nyregion/12morgenthau.html|title=Ruth S. Morgenthau, 75, an Adviser to Carter, Is Dead|last=Hevesi|first=Dennis|date=2006-11-12|access-date=2015-07-13|issn=0362-4331|newspaper=The New York Times}} She was an advocate of
Ruth married to Henry Morgenthau in 1962. They had two sons: Henry (Ben) Morgenthau (born 1964) and cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau (born 1966); and a daughter, Sarah Elinor Morgenthau Wessel (born 1963).[http://www.mjhnyc.org/morgenthaus/MLS_tree.pdf Morgenthau Family Tree] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220170053/http://www.mjhnyc.org/morgenthaus/MLS_tree.pdf|date=2015-12-20}}; retrieved October 3, 2015[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/06/style/weddings-carlton-wessel-sarah-morgenthau.html New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Carlton Wessel, Sarah Morgenthau"], nytimes.com, September 6, 1993.
She died on November 4, 2006, aged 75, in Boston, Massachusetts.{{Cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html|title=Ruth S. Morgenthau, 75, an Adviser to Carter|last=Hevesi|first=Dennis|date=2006-11-12|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-03-12|issn=0362-4331}}
Awards
In 1964, she wrote Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa,{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Political-Parties-French-Speaking-West-Africa/dp/B00507KYUE|title=Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa|last=Morgenthau|first=Ruth Schachter|date=1964|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-821624-7 |edition=First}} which won the 1965 Herskovitz Prize.{{cite web|title=Melville J. Herskovits Award Winners|publisher=African Studies Association|url=http://www.africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/herskovits-prize}}
References
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External links
- [https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/9402 Papers of Ruth S. Morgenthau, 1925-2006 (inclusive), 1963-2000 (bulk): A Finding Aid.] [https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library Schlesinger Library], Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
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Category:Emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss
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