The Valentine Story of Ludwig and Margit von Mises
He talked to her after dinner, and they went to a dance club. Apparently Mises was a poor dancer -- at least by Margit's standards -- and so they spent most of the night talking. Actually she did most of the talking and he listened attentively. Margit was an attractive woman of five-foot-four, with brown hair and grey-blue eyes. Now, as they talked, he discovered she was also a witty and warm person. He must have fallen in love with her that evening. The next day, he sent her red roses and asked her out for dinner. It was the first of many such dinners over the next two years.
Margit Serény was an actress from a bourgeois background in Hamburg. During the war, she had performed on one of the leading stages in Vienna, the Deutsche Volkstheater. When Mises met her, she was thirty-five years old and a very attractive widow with two children, Guido and Gitta. Shortly after her arrival in Vienna in early 1917, she had married Ferdinand Serény, a Hungarian aristocrat who died in 1923, bequeathing to her assets that had lost most of their value during the inflation. FULL ARTICLE
Comments (4)
Bogdan Enache
On Mises's ideas about genius, an important influence must have been without doubt the meteoric, eccentric and remarkable life and work of philosopher Otto Weininger whose book, Sex und Character, was very widely read in those times and had a great influence - or at least, did not leave indifferent - most Viennese intellectuals of the era.
Published: February 14, 2008 8:51 AM
eric lansing
did Mises, Rothbard or Hayek have any children?
Published: February 14, 2008 10:23 AM
yumi
Hayek had a couple of children and Mises had step children.
Published: February 14, 2008 11:04 AM
Bruce Koerber
The more I know about Mises the more I feel connected to him. His suffering and his determination are very inspiring.
It is said that the Vienna of the early days of Mises was a very high civilization in many ways. Comparing the thrill associated with hearing about his complex life with the garbage that fills the contemporary print and airwaves shows the difference between a high form of civilization and a low form, the one that we are now trudging through. His life can be seen as a great drama.
And that is also what I am enjoying so much about the battles of Ron Paul - the drama. It is exhilerating to see what is happening all over the place and to understand its significance!
Published: February 14, 2008 1:17 PM