People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Grün, Fritz Heinz Georg

Birth

14 June, 1921
Vienna, Austria

Death

29 October, 1997 (aged 76)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Austrian

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Jewish

Education

• University of Melbourne
• University of Wisconsin (US)
• University of Chicago (USA)

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• agricultural economist
• economist
• internee
• public servant
• soldier

Military Service

• World War II
• Australian Army Education Service

Awards

• Officer of the Order of Australia
• Distinguished Fellow (Economic Society of Australia)

Groups

• Dunera boy

Legacies

• F. H. Gruen Lecture (ANU)

Key Organisations

• Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society
• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• Economic Society of Australia (Vic)
• Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand (national)

Key Places

• Internment camp (Hay, NSW)

Workplaces

• Dept of Agriculture (NSW)
• Australian National University (economics)
• Monash University (agricultural economics)
• Australian National University (Research School of Social Sciences)