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Czech political scientist
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Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (21 July 1912 – 1 November 1992) was a Czech social and political scientist. He was a professor at MIT, Yale University and Harvard University, as well as Director of WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Deutsch studied war and peace, nationalism, co operation, and communication, as well as pioneered quantitative methods and formal system analysis and model thinking into the field of political and social sciences, contributing to the development of sociological liberalism school in international relations.

Born into a German speaking Jewish family in Prague on 21 July 1912 when the Kingdom of Bohemia was part of the Austro Hungarian Empire, Deutsch became a citizen of Czechoslovakia after World War I. His mother Maria was a Social Democrat, and one of the first women to be elected to the Czechoslovak parliament in 1920. and participated in the San Francisco conference that resulted in the creation of the United Nations in 1945. Deutsch taught at several universities; first at MIT from 1943 to 1956 (he became a professor of history and political science at MIT in 1952); then at Yale University (initially as a visiting professor in 1957 before becoming a permanent professor in 1958) until 1967; and again at Harvard until 1982. hypothesized about “information elites, controlling means of mass communication and, accordingly, power institutions, the functioning of which is based on the use of information in their activities.”

He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 1 November 1992. He has two daughters and three grandchildren.