Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich (Vienna, September 4,1926 - Bremen, December 2,2002), polymath, polemicist.

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Author of an informal series of polemical critiques of the institutions of 'modern' culture, disliked as much by right wing as by left wing commentators, he addressed issues from education to medicine to work to energy use and economic development to gender.

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Born in Vienna to a family with Jewish, Dalmatian and Catholic roots, from where they were forced to flee in 1941, he studied histology and crystallography at Florence University.

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From 1932 to 1946 he studied theology and philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in the Vatican, and worked as a priest in New York City. In 1956 he was appointed vice-rector of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, and in 1961 founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentaci?n (CIDOC) at Cuernavaca in Mexico, a research centre offering courses to missionaries from North America.

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Ivan Illich related Images and Photos (experimental)

Ivan Rodriguez	Ivan III the Great	Ivan IV the Terrible	Ivan Desny: Oss 117 N'Est Pas Mort 1956
Portrait of Ivan S. Turgenev (1818-83) 1879	Detroit Tigers- Ivan Rodriguez	Ivan 'Whiplash' Vanko Iron Man 2 Action Figure -- 4''	Portrait of Ivan Turgenev (1818-83)
Tsar Ivan IV Conquering Kazan in 1552 1894	Tsar Ivan IV Conquering Kazan in 1552 1894	Portrait of Ivan A. Krylov 1832	Portrait of Ivan Bunin 1905