Frank Tachau

Frank Tachau (19 October 1929, Braunschweig, Germany – 23 July 2010, Sykesville, USA) was an American scholar of German descent.

Frank Tachau was born in Braunschweig into a Jewish family. His father was Paul Tachau and his mother Ilse Tachau.^[1] Some members of the family were rabbis involved in German politics.^[1] The family moved to the United States in 1936, eventually settling on Chicago's South Side.^[1] Tachau graduated from the Hyde Park Academy High School. He graduated with a BSc and eventually obtained an MSc in political sciences from the University of Chicago.^[1] His master's thesis focused on the "diplomacy of the Turkish Straits between 1936 and 1946".^[2] He received his Ph.D in international relations from the same university in 1958 for a dissertation on Turkish nationalism.^[3][4]

His early academic career led him to Purdue and Rutgers universities. From September 1963 to June 1964 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Ankara.^[5][3] He was called to the University of Illinois Chicago in 1968. There he stayed for the remainder of his career, where on two occasions he acted as chairman of the political science department.^[2] He retired from his full-time professorship in 1996 but continued to lecture until 2010.^[1]

フランク・タショーは結婚しており、5人の子供の父親だった。^{[ 1 ] [ 2 ]}彼は2010年7月23日に亡くなった。^{[ 1 ]}