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John Komlos | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Influences | Robert Fogel |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Economic history |
Institutions | University of Munich University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Notable ideas | Economics and Human Biology |
John Komlos (born 28 December 1944) is an American economic historian of Hungarian descent and former holder of the chair of economic history at the University of Munich. [1] [2]
Komlos was born in 1944 in Budapest in Hungary during the Holocaust. [3] After becoming refugees during the 1956 revolution,his family fled to the United States where Komlos finally grew up in Chicago. [3] [4]
Komlos received a PhD in history in 1978 and a second PhD in economics in 1990 from the University of Chicago. [1] [5] After inspired by Robert Fogel to work on the history of human height, [2] Komlos devoted most of his academic career developing and expanding the research agenda that became known as Anthropometric history, [2] [6] [7] the study of the effect of economic development on human biology as indicated by the physical stature or the obesity rate prevalence of a population. [8] [4] [9] [10]
Komlos was a fellow at the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1984 to 1986. He worked as a professor of economics and of economic history at the University of Munich for eighteen years before his retirement. [5] [1] He also taught as a visitor at Harvard,Duke University,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,as well as in Vienna and St. Gallen.
In 2003,Komlos founded Economics and Human Biology ,a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on biological economics,economics in the context of human biology and health. [2] [5] [1] In 2013,he was elected a Fellow of the Cliometric Society. [11]
Fogel, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993, is the man most responsible for Komlos's interest in height.