Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: cambridge , massachusetts - native name lang: ru - native name: - influences: max weber - death date: 26 october 1978 - institution: harvard university - field: economic history - school tradition: austrian school - birth date: 1 october 1904 - name: alexander gerschenkron - nationality: russian american - influenced: alfred temin h. conrad albert fishlow john r. meyer peter - birth place: odessa , russian empire - alma mater: university of vienna Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of alexander gerschenkron .
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alexander gerschenkron -lrb- ; 1 october 1904 -- 26 october 1978 -rrb- was a russian-born american jewish economic historian and professor at harvard university , trained in the austrian school of economics .born in odessa , then part of the russian empire , gerschenkron fled the country during the russian civil war in 1920 to austria , where he attended the university of vienna , earning a doctorate in 1928 .after the anschluss in 1938 , he emigrated to the united states .