Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn was an Austrian political and social thinker, born in 1909 in Tobelbad, Styria. He was a Vienna correspondent for The Spectator at sixteen, studied law and theology at the University of Vienna, and earned a doctorate in political science at the University of Budapest. From 1937 to 1947 he taught at American colleges including Georgetown and Fordham, and he later wrote a column for National Review for 35 years. His books include Liberty or Equality (1952), Leftism (1974) and Leftism Revisited (1990). He was also an adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a painter. He died in 1999.