Life
Morgenthau was born in a Jewish family in Coburg, Germany, and, after attending Casimirianum, was educated at the universities of Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, and pursued postgraduate work at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He taught and practiced law in Frankfurt before emigrating to the United States in 1937, after several interim years in Switzerland and Spain. Morgenthau taught for many years at the University of Chicago, and at the end of his career he taught at the New School for Social Research and the City University of New York.
On October 8, 1979, Morgenthau was one of the passengers on board Swissair Flight 316 which crashed while trying to land at Athens-Ellinikon International Airport.
Morgenthau died after a brief illness on July 19, 1980.
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