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Josef Korbel Founder and first dean of the Graduate school in 1964, Josef Korbel helped shape the field of international studies. He was mentor to two former Secretaries of State. The first was his daughter and first female Secretary of State, Madeleine K. Albright; the second was his star student, Condoleezza Rice.
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Josef Korbel was born Sept. 20, 1909, in the village of Kysperek, Bohemia, in the Czech Lands, an area bordered by Germany, Poland, Austria and Moravia. He was the youngest of three children. His father, Arnost, was successful enough in business to create a life Albright calls “relatively well-to-do within that framework.” In 1928, Korbel and his p...
An arrangement between the Rockefeller Foundation and Ben Cherrington — then director of DU’s Social Sciences Foundation — brought Korbel to the University for what was originally intended to be a one-year teaching appointment. “The combination of scholarship and practical experience in the diplomacy of Central Europe endowed Dr. Korbel with knowle...
Korbel never returned to the international stage as a practicing diplomat, but he infused his vision of what diplomacy could and should be throughout DU. “He was a strong believer in the value of interdisciplinary education. That’s the kind of school he set up,” says Tom Farer, current dean of the Korbel School. “He took the department of internati...
It is named in honor of the founding dean, Josef Korbel, father of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The Josef Korbel School is located on the University of Denver’s main campus in Denver’s University Hill neighborhood. The school currently educates more than 700 students with nearly 70 full- and part-time faculty members.
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Josef Korbel (/ ˌ k ɒr ˈ b ɛ l /; September 20, 1909 – July 18, 1977) was a Czech-American diplomat and political scientist. During his public career, he served as Czechoslovakia 's ambassador to Yugoslavia and was the country's representative to the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan , serving as its chair.
Jun 28, 2006 · His students are, most certainly, influential today. But man for man (or rather, woman for woman), the less-well-known academic Josef Korbel has arguably had a more enduring and practical impact ...
