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Henry Rosovsky

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Henry Rosovsky · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1927, Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland) — 2022, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Henry Rosovsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Henry Rosovsky was an American economic historian and, as longtime dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, one of the most influential figures in modern American higher education. A specialist in Japanese economic development, he shaped Harvard's core curriculum and wrote widely on the university. Rosovsky was Jewish, born in the Free City of Danzig, and his family emigrated to escape the Nazis.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists