Feliks Gross
Sociologist, author, scholar
Born Jun. 17, 1906, Cracow, Poland; came to U.S., 1941; son of Adolf and Augusta (Alexander); married Priva (Baidaff); child: Eva.
Education: Master of Laws (LL.M.), 1930, Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), 1931, Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland); postgraduate, Paris (France), 1931; Cracow Bar examination, 1936.
Career, i.a.: assistant, Sociology Department, Jagiellonian University, 1926-31; Slagiaize International Labor Office of the League of Nations, 1931; attorney, 1936-39; lecturer (recommended by B. Malinowski), London School of Economics (United Kingdom), 1939; secretary, General Central Easters European Planning Board, 1941-45; editor, New Europe, and World Reconstruction, New York City, 1942-45; prof. (sociology and anthropology), 1946-77, prof. emeritus, 1977 -, Brooklyn College, and Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York City; president, Academy for Humanities and Sciences, 1980 -, City University of New York (CUNY); visiting prof., director, Institute of International Affairs, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1945-52; visiting prof., New York University, 1945-68, Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1951, 1954-56, University of Vermont, Burlington, 1957, Columbia University, New York City, 1973; Fulbright senior lecturer, University of Rome (Italy), 1957-58, 1964-65, 1974; lecturer, University of Paris, University of Florence, College of Europe, Bruges, and several other European and American universities; president, Taraknath Das Foundation, 1965 -; research council member, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia (PA), 1966 -; consultant, National Committee on Causes and Prevention of Violence, 1968.
Author, i.a.: Robotnicy pisza, 1937; Proletariat i Kultura, 1938; The Polish Worker, 1945; Crossroads of Two Continents, 1945; Socjalizm humanistyczny, 1945; Foreign Policy Analysis, 1954; Seizure of Political Power in a Century of Revolutions, 1957; Uwagi o zmianie spolecznej, 1964; Valori Sociali e Struttura, 1967; World Politics and Tension Areas, 1967; Violence in Politics, 1973; Paese, Values and Social Change in an Italian Village, 1974; The Revolutionary Party, 1974; Ethnics in the Borderland, 1979; deologies, Goals and Values, 1986; co-author, Socjologia Partii Politycznej, 1928; editor, European Ideologies, 1948; author, co-author and editor, several other books; author and editor, numerous articles in professional journals.
Member of, i.a.: founder and director, Labor Social Science School - TUR, Cracow, 1934-38; president, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.) (vice president, 1964, director, 1975); International League Rights of Man; International Institute of Sociology; American Sociology Association; Academy of Politic Science; New York Academy of Sciences; Authors League in America.
Honors, i.a.: Sigma Xi; Carnegie scholarship, Paris, 1931; grants, Fulbright Foundation, 1956-57, 1964-65, Sloane Foundation, 1963, City University Research Foundation, 1971, 1974, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1972, Rockefeller Foundation, 1974; Golden Cross of Phoenix, King of Greece, 1963; foreign member, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991; Order of Polonia Restituta, 1992; Alfred Jurzykowski Award, 1992; award, National Archives of the Republic of Poland, 1995; listed in: Who's Who in the World, Contemporary Authors.
Affiliation: Liberal
Languages: Polish, English, French, Italian, German
Home: 310 W. 85th St., New York, NY 10024
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996