KARL DEUTSCH b. July 21, 1912

KARL W. DEUTSCH 

July 21, 1912-November 1, 1992 

PROF. KARL DEUTSCH 

at the podium 

teaching Gov. 20 

at Harvard 

Nicholas Kristof, when he was writing for the Harvard Crimson and not yet the New York Times, headlined Karl Deutsch as "The Best Political Scientist in the World."  The New York Times obituary (not written by Kristof) called him "An Innovator in Political Science." 

Colleagues at Harvard and in the political science field more broadly wrote long appreciative pieces on Deutsch, which can be read here and here (the latter includes an extensive bibliography). 

I had the pleasure of working with Karl Deutsch as a Teaching Fellow in Government 20, Introduction to Comparative Politics.