1. Erich Jantsch was an Austrian system-theorist, philosopher, astrophysicist, engineer, educator, author, consultant and futurist, especially known for his work in the social systems design movement in Europe in the 1970s.
16 Facts About Erich Jantsch
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Erich Jantsch started his career as an astronomer at the University of Vienna, where he worked until 1957.
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Erich Jantsch continued to work in Europe and United States.
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From 1957 to 1962 Erich Jantsch worked as an engineer and physicist in Switzerland.
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Erich Jantsch lectured widely in Europe, North and South America, the Near East and Japan.
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In 1974, Erich Jantsch stayed at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, "where he was one of the first distinguished residents invited by the Rockefeller Foundation".
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Erich Jantsch was Research Associate at MIT, where he studied the future of MIT and the American University.
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Erich Jantsch was an advisor to twenty governments, several international organizations and research institutes.
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Erich Jantsch made a living and supported his mother "by giving lectures all over the world, through writing, and by relying on a few friends".
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Erich Jantsch died on 12 December 1980 in Berkeley, California "after a short but painful illness".
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Erich Jantsch had been "alone and lonely, abandoned by friends, misunderstood by colleagues".
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Erich Jantsch did not believe that forecasting or science could be neutral.
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Erich Jantsch is inspired by and draws on the work of Ilya Prigogine concerning dissipative structures and nonequilibrium states.
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Erich Jantsch succumbed at the age of 51 to the material and physical hardships that worsened progressively during the last decade of his prolific and still young life.
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Erich Jantsch was almost 52 and grateful for a very rich, beautiful and complete life.
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Erich Jantsch's ashes have been scattered over the sea, the cradle of evolution.