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DR. KARL MANNHEIM has been appointed to the chair of education in the University of London, in succession to Sir Fred Clarke, who retired at the end of the last academic year. The appointment dates from October 1, 1945, and is tenable at the University Institute of Education. Mannheim's appointment may be regarded as both daringly original and a sign of the times. A Hungarian by birth, he gained his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Budapest, and was becoming known as a sociologist of repute while teaching in Germany before 1933. The events of that year brought him to Britain, and to a lectureship in sociology in the London School of Economics. In 1940 his impressive study of "Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction" established him in the front rank of sociologists, and the collection of essays he published in 1943 under the title of "Diagnosis of our Time" enhanced an already considerable reputation.
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University of London, Institute of Education: Prof. Karl Mannheim. Nature 156, 743 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156743c0
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