Emil Kauder

Emil Kauder was a son of the Austrian architect Hugo Kauder, who fell in the First World War, and of Ernestine Feigl, who became a victim of the Holocaust. From 1919 he studied economics in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1924 under Werner Sombart. Kauder worked at first as a university assistant, as the head of a private school, as a commercial adviser on customs questions in the textile industry, and as an independent scholarly author. After the annexation of Austria he emigrated to the United States, where he worked as a teacher in preparatory schools. In 1943 he married the German émigrée Helene I. Riegner, with whom he had two children. In 1947 he became Assistant Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and in 1960 he moved to Illinois Wesleyan University as Professor of Economics. In 1961 he went to Florida Presbyterian College. After his retirement in 1968 he still taught at the University of South Florida in Tampa. In 1960/61 Kauder worked as a librarian at the Carl Menger Library of Hitotsubashi University in Japan and wrote a history of the marginal utility school, which was also translated into Japanese and French. In 1971 he was invited by the University of Vienna to give the lecture marking the centenary of the publication of Carl Menger's "Principles of Economics". Emil Kauder died in 1982 in Saint Petersburg, Florida.