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Henry Morgenthau
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American diplomat (1856–1946)
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- Works
- 11
Top works
- I was sent to athens
- Ambassador Morgenthau's Story and Secrets of the Bosphorus
- The Murder of a Nation
- Armenia Violada
- All In A Lifetime
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis
· 1998 · cited 19,508x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,419x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,393x
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 14,669x
- Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?
· 1996 · cited 13,940x
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Key facts
- President
- Woodrow Wilson
- Preceded by
- William W. Rockhill
- Succeeded by
- Abram I. Elkus
- Born
- ( 1856-04-26 ) April 26, 1856, Mannheim , Baden (present-day Baden-Württemberg , Germany )
- Died
- November 25, 1946 (1946-11-25) (aged 90), New York City , U.S.
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Josephine Sykes
- Children
- Helen Morgenthau Fox Henry Morgenthau Jr. Alma Morgenthau Wertheim Ruth Morgenthau
- Relatives
- Henry Morgenthau III (grandson) Robert M. Morgenthau (grandson) Barbara W. Tuchman (granddaughter) Anne W. Simon (granddaughter) Rafe Pomerance (great-grandson) Jessica Mathews (great-granddaughter)
- Alma mater
- City College of New York (BA) Columbia Law School (LLB)
- Profession
- Lawyer, diplomat
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- date of birth
- 1856-04-26
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- 1946-11-25
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- Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
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Henry Morgenthau (/ˈmɔːrɡəntaʊ/; April 26, 1856 – November 25, 1946) was a German-born American lawyer and businessman, best known for his role as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Morgenthau was one of the most prominent Americans who spoke about the Greek genocide and the Armenian genocide of which he stated, "I am firmly convinced that this is the greatest crime of the ages."
Morgenthau was the father of the politician Henry Morgenthau Jr. His grandchildren include Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney of Manhattan for 35 years, and Barbara W. Tuchman, a historian who earned the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Guns of August.