Name August Hayek | Role Economist | |
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Died March 23, 1992, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Influenced John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, Karl Popper Influenced by Ludwig von Mises, Adam Smith, Karl Popper Books The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty, Law - Legislation and Liberty, Individualism and Economic, The Fatal Conceit Similar People John Maynard Keynes, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, Adam Smith | ||
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August von Hayek (14 December 1871 – 11 June 1928) was an Austrian physician and botanist born in Vienna. He was the son of naturalist Gustav von Hayek and the father of economist Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992).
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In 1895 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna. Soon, he was employed by the municipal ministry of health. He obtained his PhD in 1905. Beginning in 1922, he taught classes at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna, and from 1926, he was an associate professor at the university. He died in 1928 in Vienna.
He is remembered for phytogeographical investigations that took place within the Austria-Hungarian Empire, in particular, Styria and the Balkans. He also conducted detailed studies on the historical development of flora found along the eastern and southeastern edge of the Alps. In the field of plant systematics, he specialized in Centaurea species native to Austria-Hungary.
He was married to Felicitas von Juraschek.