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He then went on to postgraduate studies at the Warburg Institute ( part of the University of London ) and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, being a Kennedy Scholar in Politics and International Relations.
Gombrich was educated at Theresianum Secondary School and at Vienna University before coming to Britain in 1936, where he took up a post as a research assistant at the Warburg Institute, University of London.
The company was founded with the help of Lincoln Kirstein and Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg, managed by Alexander Merovitch and populated by students of Kirstein and Balanchine's School of American Ballet.
She is survived by two sons: Columbia Graduate School of Journalism professor, Boston Globe editor and former Atlantic Monthly executive Michael Janeway and William H. Janeway, until 2006 a Vice Chairman at Warburg Pincus, as well as by three grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
In March 2008, Lewis C. Cantley and colleagues at the Harvard Medical School announced they had identified the enzyme that gave rise to the Warburg effect.
He remains a senior adviser at Warburg Pincus ( a private equity firm ), Chairman of and a substantial shareholder in Canongate Press and Leiths School of Food and Wine, and was appointed Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company in April 2004.

Warburg and American
The estate would later become an important site in the history of modern American ballet, when on June 10, 1934, their son Edward M. M. Warburg ( 1908 – 1992 ) helped produce the first American performance of George Balanchine's masterpiece " Serenade ".
# Jewish Idea in American Monetary Affairs: The remarkable story of Paul Warburg, who began work on the United States monetary system after three weeks residence in this country
It was founded by the American philanthropist, Felix M. Warburg in 1925.
He worked with several key bankers and economists, including Paul Warburg, Abram Andrew and Henry Davison, to design a plan for an American central bank in 1911.
On 1 April 1945, Warburg was captured by American troops.
In 1974 A. G. Becker entered into a merger with Warburg Paribas, a newly formed American joint venture between London-based S. G. Warburg and Paris-based Paribas ( Compagnie Financi ere de Paris et des Pays-Bas, prior to the bank's nationalization in 1982 ).
However, the firm was plagued by competition between Warburg and Paribas, as well as cultural conflicts between French, English and American executives and internal management issues in the U. S. In 1978, Becker's president, Paul Judy, an architect of the joint venture was replaced by Ira Wender.
Paul Moritz Warburg ( August 10, 1868 – January 24, 1932 ) was a German-born American banker and early advocate of the U. S. Federal Reserve System.
Warburg remained a partner in the family firm in Hamburg, but he became a naturalized American citizen in 1911.
Upon arriving in New York in 1902, Warburg drafted a critique of the American banking system, which he thought was insufficiently centralized.
Warburg ’ s ideas gained a wider hearing after the panic of 1907 engulfed the country ’ s financial system, and he subsequently published two more articles elaborating and defending his plans, “ A Plan for a Modified Central Bank ” and “ A United Reserve Bank of the United States .” At the same time, he appeared at conferences hosted by Columbia University, the American Economic Society, and the Academy of Political Science.
“ The New York bankers got all they wanted ,” Wicker argues, “ with the single exception of banker control …. The Federal Reserve Act owes as much, if not more, to Senator Aldrich as it does to Representative Glass .” Despite some minor quibbles, Warburg himself largely celebrated the Owen-Glass Bill in The North American Review.
He also made substantial contributions to the Warburg Library in Hamburg, founded by his family ; gave to Heidelberg University one of its halls, known as the American House ; and he made generous donations to the Academy of Political Science in Berlin.
Spivak argued that the plot was part of a " conspiracy of Jewish financiers working with fascist groups ", referring specifically to Felix Warburg, the McCormack – Dickstein Committee, and certain members of the American Jewish Committee in collusion with J. P. Morgan.
** James Warburg ( 1896 – 1969 ), American banker, financial adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Mary Warburg ( 1908 – 2009 ), American philanthropist
* Sam Warburg ( born 1983 ), American tennis player
** James Warburg ( 1897 – 1969 ), son of Paul M. Warburg, advisor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the early days of the Brain Trust, American delegate to the London Economic Conference, economist, banker, and author of lyrics ( using the pen name Paul James ) to a 1930 hit Broadway musical, Fine and Dandy.
The bad thing about the business was that the good Felix Warburg, thanks to his financial authority ensured that the incapable Magnes was made director of the Institute, a failed American rabbi, who, through his dilettantish enterprises had become uncomfortable to his family in America, who very much hoped to dispatch him honorably to some exotic place.

Warburg and opened
In 1989, the Jewish Museum demolished the 1963 modernist addition and courtyard, replacing it with a new extension opened in 1993 that mimics the French Gothic details of the Warburg Mansion, the museum's home since 1947.
Warburg Pincus began investing in Europe in 1983 and opened its first office in Asia in 1994.
In January 1944, Frieda Schiff Warburg, widow of philanthropist Felix M. Warburg ( d. 1937 ), donated the family mansion as a permanent home for the museum, and the site opened to the public as ' The Jewish Museum ' in May 1947.

Warburg and on
Gollancz formed his own publishing company in 1927, publishing works by writers such as Ford Madox Ford and George Orwell ( though Orwell went to Secker and Warburg from Homage to Catalonia on ).
In keeping with the family's philanthropic efforts, Frieda Schiff Warburg, on her death in 1958, bequeathed a remaining to the town of Greenburgh to build a public school.
* Joseph Losey, Losey on Losey, edited and introduced by Tom Milne, Secker & Warburg, 1967, 192 p.
In December 1997, Christie's put itself on the auction block, but after two months of negotiations with a consortium led investment firm SBC Warburg Dillon Read, it did not attract a bid high enough to accept.
The financially unstable Orion ventured into perilous swamps when E. M. Warburg Pincus & Company, one of the studio's original investors, became impatient with the low rate of return on its 20 percent stake in the enterprise.
Einstein and Warburg later became friends, and Einstein's work in physics had great influence on Otto's biochemical research.
While working at the Marine Biological Station, Warburg performed research on oxygen consumption in sea urchin eggs after fertilization, and proved that upon fertilization, the rate of respiration increases by as much as sixfold.
In 1944, Warburg was nominated for a second Nobel Prize in Physiology by Albert Szent-Györgyi, for his work on nicotinamide, the mechanism and enzymes involved in fermentation, and the discovery of flavine ( in yellow enzymes ).
When Dr. Josef Issels, an intrepid doctor who became famous for his use of nonmainstream therapies to treat cancer, was arrested and later found guilty of malpractice in what Issels alleged was a highly politicized case, Warburg offered to testify on Issels ' behalf at his appeal to the German Supreme Court.
He went on to lead the troops to victory at the Battle of Warburg in July 1760 and the Battle of Villinghausen in July 1761.
The Battle of Warburg was a battle fought on 31 July 1760 during the Seven Years ' War.
Warburg is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hessen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
The Warburg municipal area borders in the west on the Sauerland and in the northwest on the Eggegebirge foothills, while in the north and northeast the Warburger Börde abuts the town and in the south stretches the Diemel Valley.
From the castle hill, there was a good view over the Diemel Valley, such that a close watch could be kept on the ford that merchants had to cross going to Warburg and Paderborn.
There arose yet another superfluous government building in 1975 after the communities of the old Amt of Warburg-Land were amalgamated with Warburg, namely the Amt administration building on Kasseler Straße, which was forsaken by the district authorities in favour of the Behördenhaus (" Authority House ") on Bahnhofstraße.
A tower on the Desenberg recalls the Battle of Warburg.
So the area around Warburg was Christianized from 774 on.
For a time in the 20th century, Warburg used a coat of arms based on the old greater seal, showing the walls, towers and gateway, but not the bishop.
On the latter, one may reach the Warburg interchange on Autobahn A 44 ( Kassel-Dortmund ), which not much farther on meets the A 7 near Kassel.

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