SALOMON

SALOMON (Salomon de la Tour), GOTTFRIED (1892–1964), German sociologist. Salomon's father was Jewish and his mother was of French Protestant descent. Born in Frankfurt, he studied under georg simmel , but later became assistant to franz oppenheimer , an adherent of politico-historical sociology. In 1933 Salomon emigrated to France and in 1941 fled to the U.S., where he taught at the New School for Social Research, Columbia University, Hunter College, and Yeshiva University. In 1958 he returned to Frankfurt. Salomon's publications (such as Allgemeine Staatslehre, 1930) are chiefly concerned with political ideology and the history of sociology and socialism. He became widely known as editor of the Jahrbuecher fuer Soziologie and of the works of ludwig gumplowicz , Lorenz von Stein, and Giambattista Vico. His first publication was Proudhon und der Sozialismus (1920) and his last Moderne Staatslehren (1965). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: W. Bernsdorff (ed.), Internationales Soziologenlexikon (1959), S.V., incl. bibl. of his writings. (Werner J. Cahnman)