About John Komlos
Born 1944. John Komlos is an American economic historian and university teacher.
John Komlos (born 28 December 1944) is an American economic historian of Hungarian descent and former holder of the chair of economic history at LMU Munich.
Personal life Komlos was born in 1944 in Budapest in Hungary during the Holocaust.
Career Komlos received a PhD in history in 1978 and a second PhD in economics in 1990 from the University of Chicago. After inspired by Robert Fogel to work on the history of human height, the study of the effect of economic development on human biology as indicated by the physical stature or the obesity rate prevalence of a population.
Komlos was a fellow at the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1984 to 1986. He worked as a professor of economics and of economic history at LMU Munich for eighteen years before his retirement.
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