Theorist Deutsch Gets Ford Grant To Teach Here

The Board of Overseers yesterday approved the appointment of Karl W. Deutsch, a pioneer in modern theories of political development, as professor of Government, (effective July 1, 1967).

Deutsch, who has taught at Yale since 1957, has been influential in giving quantitative meaning to such vague concepts as nationalism, political integration, and social mobilization. One of his first books, Nationalism and Social Communication, published in 1953 while Deutsch was professor of History and Political Science at M.I.T., was the ground-breaking study in the field.

In all, he has written 12 books and 29 articles, dealing with such topics as European integration, cybernetics, arms control, and communications theory.

Subsidized by Ford Grant

Deutsch's appointment is supported by the same multi-million-dollar Ford Foundation grant for professorships in political development that financed the recent appointment of Seymour Martin Lipset, Professor of Government.

Arthur A. Maass, chairman of the Government Department, said yesterday that the appointment of "so highly regarded a scholar has created a great deal of excitement in the Harvard political community."

Deutsch will definitely teach undergraduate courses here, Maass said, but no specific course plans have yet been made.

A visiting professor at Harvard in 1961, Deutsch also held visiting professorships at Princeton, Chicago, Heidelberg, the Air War College, and the Fletcher School. He did his undergraduate work at the German University in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he was born in 1912. He came to the United States in 1938, joined M.I.T. faculty in 1942, and received a Ph.D. (his second) from Harvard in 1951.

The grant that financed Deutsch's appointment totalled $12.5 million and was designed to strengthen Harvard's program in international affairs.

The grant was made to Harvard in January, 1965. A total of nine new chairs--supported by $4.5 million--were provided for by the grant.