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Ivan Illich

Ivan IllichBorn: 4-Sep-1926
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: 2-Dec-2002
Location of death: Bremen, Germany
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Philosopher

Nationality: Austria
Executive summary: Deschooling Society

Father: Ivan Peter (civil engineer)
Mother: Ellen Regenstreif

    University: University of Florence
    University: Pontifical Gregorian University, Vatican City (1932-46)
    University: PhD History, University of Salzburg
    Administrator: Vice Rector, Catholic University of Ponce, Puerto Rico (1956-60)
    Professor: Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania State University

    Risk Factors: Opium

Author of books:
Deschooling Society (1971)
Tools for Conviviality (1973)
Energy and Equity (1974)
Medical Nemesis (1976)
Toward a History of Needs (1978)
The Right To Useful Unemployment And Its Professional Enemies (1978)
Shadow Work (1981)
Gender (1982)
H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness (1985)
ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind (1988, with Barry Sanders)
In the Mirror of the Past (1992)
In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon (1993)



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