Drucker, Peter Ferdinand (19 November 1909–11 November 2005), author, professor, and management consultant, was born in Vienna, the elder of two sons of Adolph Drucker, an economist and lawyer who worked as a senior official in Austria-Hungary’s Ministry of Economics, and Caroline Drucker, who had studied medicine. His parents were born Jewish but raised their family as Protestants. They lived in a suburban house, designed by a prominent local architect, that had views of vineyards and the Vienna Woods. Drucker received an informal education at his parents’ frequent dinner parties, which were attended by economists, doctors, mathematicians, philosophers, artists, and musicians (his grandmother had played piano with the Vienna Philharmonic). When Drucker was eight years old, his father introduced him to Sigmund Freud at a Vienna restaurant....
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Drucker, Peter Ferdinand (19 November 1909–11 November 2005), author, professor, and management consultant
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Duyckinck, George Long (1823-1863), author and editor
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Duyckinck, George Long (17 October 1823–30 March 1863), author and editor, was born in New York City, the son of Evert Duyckinck, book publisher, and Harriet June. Duyckinck, whose reputation has been almost eclipsed by that of his older brother, the more outgoing and prolific ...
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Moulton, Richard Green (5 May 1849–15 Aug. 1924), professor, lecturer, and author
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Moulton, Richard Green (5 May 1849–15 Aug. 1924), professor, lecturer, and author, was born in Preston, England, the youngest son of James Egan Moulton and Catherine (Fiddian) Moulton. His father was a prominent Methodist minister with four sons, two of whom became ministers: Rev. William Fiddian Moulton, who authored a concordance to the Greek New Testament and was an editor of the Revised Version of the Bible, and Rev. John Egan Moulton, who became a Methodist missionary to Australia. Another brother, James Fletcher Moulton, was a lawyer, judge, scientist, and member of Parliament, with a life peerage as Baron Moulton....
