Jp nettl biography
John Peter Nettl (–) was a historian best known for his two-volume biography of Rosa Luxemburg, which The New York Times described as a classic work..
J. P. Nettl
Historian
John Peter Nettl (–) was a historian best known for his two-volume biography of Rosa Luxemburg, which The New York Times described as a classic work that did full justice to her political activity, context, theoretical contributions, and personality.[1]
He was born in in Czechoslovakia.
John Peter Nettl was a historian best known for his two-volume biography of Rosa Luxemburg, which The New York Times described as a classic work that did full justice to her political activity, context, theoretical contributions, and personality.
He went to school at Marlborough and Oxford. He served in British army intelligence during the Second World War.[citation needed] He worked briefly for his family's business, but in returned to academia as a reader in politics and social studies at Oxford then Leeds.
He married Marietta Nettl and together they had three children.[2] He had recently accepted a chair of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania when he was one of the 32 people killed (out of 42 total passengers and crew) when Northeast Airlines Flight crashed in Hanover, New Hampshire on October 25, He was traveling with his wife who survived and was treated for a fractur