People Lasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight), 1902-1978

Harold Lasswell

Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902 – December 18, 1978) was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist. He earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and economics and was a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He was a professor of law at Yale University. He studied at the Universities of London, Geneva, Paris, and Berlin in the 1920s . He served as president of the American Political Science Association (APSA), of the American Society of International Law and of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). He has been described as a "one-man university" whose "competence in, and contributions to, anthropology, communications, economics, law, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry and sociology are enough to make him a political scientist in the model of classical Greece." Read more at Wikipedia...

Born: 1902, Illinois
Died: 1978, New York City

Alternate Names: Harold Dwight Lasswell
Occupation(s): political scientist, academic, sociologist, psychologist
Field(s) of Work: political science, sociology
Employer(s): University of Chicago, New School, Yale University
Associated Place(s): United States
Associated Subject(s):  World War, 1939-1945, Values, International law, Civil rights

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