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Title: Paul Haensel (Pavel Petrovich Genzel') papers
Date (inclusive): 1907-1950
Collection Number: 2000C43
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Russian
Physical Description:
14 microfilm reels
(2.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, curricular materials, and printed matter, relating to economic conditions and especially
to tax policy, primarily in the United States.
Creator:
Haensel, Paul, 1878-1949
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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[Identification of item], Paul Haensel Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Chronology
1878 February 8 |
Born, Moscow, Russia |
1902 |
LLD, Moscow University |
1903-1928 |
Professor of finance, Moscow University |
1908-1916 |
Dean, Economics Department, Moscow Commercial Institute |
1928 |
Visiting lecturer, London School of Economics |
1929-1930 |
Professor, Universität Graz, Austria |
1930-1943 |
Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois |
1943-1948 |
Professor, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia |
1949 February 28 |
Died |
Biography
Professor Paul Haensel was a prominent economist who authored several books on taxation and finance and taught at Northwestern
University from 1930 to 1943. Haensel was born in Moscow on 8 February 1878 (N.S.). Graduating from the Moscow Practical Commercial
Academy in 1896, he entered Moscow University, completing his course of studies in 1902 with a degree in law. Remaining at
the University as a professor from 1903 to 1928, he published many works on taxation, including his master's thesis, Nalog
s nasledstva (1906), as well as works on public finance, such as Istoriia finansov (1913) and Finansovaia reforma v Rossii
(1916-1917). In addition to his teaching and research activities, he served as a member of the board of directors of the State
Bank, 1915-1917, advisor to the Commissariat of Finance, and director of the financial section of the Institute of Economic
Research in Moscow, 1921-1928.
Invited to lecture abroad in 1928, he opted to remain there, finding a position as professor of economics in 1930. He taught
and wrote on Soviet as well as American and European economic issues, and testified before Congressional committees on tax
reform in 1943. Following his retirement from Northwestern in that year, he continued to teach at Mary Washington College
of the University of Virginia until 1948. Haensel died in Illinois on 28 February 1949.
Scope and Content Note
This collection reflects the academic career and public service in the United States of the notable Russian economist Paul
Haensel. As professor of economics at Northwestern University and Mary Washington College, he lectured and wrote widely on
topics of taxation, public finance and international economics. A significant amount of material in the collection details
his involvement in debates over taxation policy in the U.S. before and during World War II.
Also of interest are his short stories and novel of life in the Russia during and after the Revolution (Speeches and writings/"Top',"
"Zhizn' krutit," "Amerikanskaia duel'"). Many of his writings are brief newspaper notes, articles, or letters to the editor
on various subjects; these, along with his notes for speeches, are grouped together by physical form. Only more significant
speeches and writings have been given separate entries.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming of these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and the Museum of Russian Culture. The grant
also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials are held at
the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco, as its property. A transfer table of corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Economics
Economists
Taxation -- United States
United States -- Economic conditions