Peter Drucker Biography

Peter Drucker was born in 1909 in Austria, however he fled to the United States in 1937 due to the Nazis and the war in Europe. He became a US citizen in 1942 by naturalization. He was an incredibly intelligent business man and shared his knowledge as a management professor at New York University from 1950-1971. In 1971 he became the Clarke professor of Social Science and Management at the Claremont Graduate University. He worked there until his death in 2005.

Peter Drucker is not only famous for his long life and great business instincts, but also for sharing them in over 30 books. His books range in subject with one being an autobiography, another on Japanese art, many others on business management and yet he managed to write a couple of novels as well. Obviously, Drucker was an incredible writer on many subjects.

Drucker wrote in other arenas as well. He was a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and an editorial columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He continued consulting for the rest of his life and was still doling out business advice in his nineties!

Three years before his death George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His long lived life afforded him the ability to make a difference and he died of natural causes at the age of 95.