Paul Einzig

Paul Einzig
Born(1897-09-25)25 September 1897
Died9 May 1973(1973-05-09) (aged 75)
OccupationsWriter, Journalist, Economist

Paul Einzig (25 August 1897 – 8 May 1973) was an economic and political writer and journalist. He wrote over 50 books, alongside many articles for newspapers and journals, and regular columns for the newspapers Financial News (which became Financial Times) and Commercial and Financial Chronicle.

Biography

Einzig was born in Braşov, Transylvania (then a part of Hungary, now Romania), into a Jewish family, and educated in Hungary, England, and France. He earned a degree as Doctor of Political and Economic Sciences at the University of Paris from 1921 to 1923. He moved to England in 1919, becoming a citizen in 1929.

Einzig wrote his first article for The Economist in 1919 and contributed to The Economic Journal in 1920 with an article entitled "The Monetary Economy of Bolshevism." He became the Paris correspondent for the Financial News during his doctorate studies, rising to foreign editor upon his move back to London. Einzig used his regular Lombard Street column in the Financial News to provide updates on international finance as well as express his personal views and fight for what he believed were worthy causes. He was the primary investigator behind the "Czech Gold" scandal, where the Bank of England had transferred substantial reserves of Czechoslovak gold to the Reichsbank following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Einzig became political correspondent for the Financial News in 1940 and continued in this role until ill health forced him to resign in 1956. He spent the remainder of his career in freelance work and writing his weekly column in the Commercial and Financial Chronicle.

He had a wife, Ruth, a son, Richard and a daughter. He died in London in 1973.

Works

References

  1. ↑ The History of Foreign Exchange | Book Reviews | EH.Net Archived 2013-10-19 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "The Papers of Paul Einzig". ArchiveSearch. Cambridge University.
  3. ↑ William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein, The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, Palgrave Macmillan (2011), p. 241
  4. ↑ Einzig, Paul (March 1920). "The Monetary Economy of Bolshevism". The Economic Journal. 30 (117): 123.
  5. ↑ Einzig, Paul (1960). In the Centre of Things. Hutchinson of London. p. 42.
  6. 1 2 Tether, C. Gordon (23 September 2004). "Einzig, Paul". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  7. ↑ Einzig, Paul (1960). In the Centre of Things. Hutchinson of London. p. 186.
  8. ↑ Paul Einzig, How Money is Managed. London: Pelican, 1954
  9. ↑ Fisk, Harvey E. (1930). "Review of The Bank for International Settlements". The American Economic Review. 20 (2): 323–325. ISSN 0002-8282.