Researching Arthur Stein
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The name Arthur means "from Latin Artorius, legendary king" and is of Welsh origin.
Records of Arthur Stein on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Arthur Stein and the Stein Family Tree
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Arthur Stein
Arthur Asher Stein (born November 19, 1950) is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Specialising in issues such as ethnic conflict, terrorism, economic relations, and global governance, Stein has served on the editorial boards of International Organization, the American Journal of Political Science, and International Interactions and was a member of the Statewide Steering Committee for the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation. He is currently an Editor of the American Political Science Review.
Source: Arthur Stein, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaArthur Stein (historian)
Arthur Stein (10 June 1871, in Vienna – 15 November 1950, in Prague) was an Austrian-Czech historian and epigrapher.
From 1892 to 1897 he studied history, archaeology and epigraphy at the University of Vienna, where his teachers were Eugen Bormann, Otto Benndorf and Emil Szántó. Following graduation, he took an extended study trip to Bulgaria, Italy, Greece and Asia Minor. In 1915 he obtained his habilitation for classical history and archaeology at the University of Prague, where in 1922 he was named a full professor of Roman archaeology and epigraphy. Because of his Jewish heritage, he was imprisoned at Theresienstadt concentration camp from July 1942 to May 1945.
With Edmund Groag, he published three volumes of the second edition of the Prosopographia Imperii Romani (1933–43).
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