  ivan illich (;see inogolo:pronunciation of ivan illich. 4 september 1926 &ndash; 2 december 2002) was an austrian philosopher, roman catholic priest, and "maverick social critic"madar, chase (2010-02-01) "the people's priest", the american conservative, february 1, 2010. of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development. == personal life == illich was born in vienna to a croatian catholic father, engineer ivan peter illich, and a sephardic jewish mother, ellen nÃ©e regenstreif-ortlieb. his maternal grandmother was from texas. illich had italian, spanish, french, and german as native languages. (fr)http://www.europeansocialecologyinstitute.org/site/news/obit/illich.html he later learned croatian, the language of his grandfathers, then ancient greek and latin, in addition to spanish, portuguese, hindi, english, and other languages. he studied histology and crystallography at the university of florence (italy) as well as theology and philosophy at the pontifical gregorian university in rome (from 1942 to 1946), and medieval history in salzburg. he wrote a dissertation focusing on the historian arnold j. toynbee and would return to that subject in his later years. in 1951, he "signed up to become a parish priest in one of new yorkâs poorest neighborhoodsâ[[washington heights, m
1926_births 2002_deaths Anarchist_academics Anarchist_pedagogues Anarchist_writers Austrian_Roman_Catholic_priests Austrian_anarchists Austrian_people_of_Croatian_descent Austrian_people_of_Jewish_descent Austrian_philosophers Austrian_writers Christian_anarchists Critics_of_work_and_the_work_ethic Deschooling_and_criticism_of_the_school_system Humanists Pennsylvania_State_University_faculty People_from_Bremen People_from_Cuernavaca Social_critics Writers_from_Vienna