Harry Gideonse

Harry David Gideonse (May 17, 1901 – March 12, 1985) was a Dutch-born American economist. He was the second President of Brooklyn College, from 1939 to 1966, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research from 1966 until 1975.

Early and personal life and education Gideonse was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to Martin Cornelius and Johanna Jacoba Helena Magdalena (de Lange) Gideonse. His family emigrated to the United States in 1904, settling in Rochester, New York, where Gidonese attended elementary school.

He married Edmee Koch, of Geneva, Switzerland. They had two sons.

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).

Biography

At Rutgers University, beginning in 1928 he was as assistant professor of economics. In May 1983, Brooklyn College renamed its library in his honor.

He served on the executive committee of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. He was a member of the anti-Castro organization, Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba.

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.

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