Grünberg rose from penniless immigrant to Vienna professor through strategic career choices

Evidence

In 1892 Grünberg converted to Roman Catholicism, apparently in order to register as a lawyer in 1893 and take up a university career in 1894 as a Privatdozent in Political Economy at the University of Vienna. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 75 (#expands, via linked claim)

Grünberg was born into an Austrian Jewish family in 1861 in Focsani in Romania, on the eastern foothills of the East Carpathian Mountains. At twenty he went to Vienna to study law. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 74 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Grünberg converted to Catholicism to enable his legal and academic career — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 75; Institute founder Carl Grünberg was an Austrian Jew born in Romania — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 74

Broader Connections

• Grünberg converted to Catholicism to enable his legal and academic career #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 75
• Institute founder Carl Grünberg was an Austrian Jew born in Romania #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 74