Gordon Zahn

Gordon C. Zahn ( born August 7, 1918 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, † December 9, 2007 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) was an American sociologist.

Life

Gordon C. Zahn received his doctorate in 1952 at the Catholic University and was from 1953 to 1967 professor of sociology at Loyola University Chicago. From 1967 to 1980 he was at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was president of the American Catholic Sociological Society in 1968. He was a founder of Pax Christi in the USA.

In German-speaking Gordon C. Zahn is best known for his biography of the Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter. Based on the book Axel Corti filmed the movie "The case Jägerstätter ".

For a long time in Alzheimer diseased tooth died in December 2007.

Works

  • In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter. 1964 ISBN 0-87243-141- X
  • Catholic opposition to Hitler. Washington DC 1970
  • Chaplains in the RAF. Manchester Univ. Press, Manchester 1969
  • The German Catholics and Hitler's wars. Styria, Graz et al 1965
  • He followed his conscience. The lone witness of Franz Jägerstätter. Styria, Graz et al 1967
  • Franz Jägerstätter. Martyrs of conscience. Pax Christi Tyrol, Innsbruck 1987
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