Klaus Krippendorff

Klaus Krippendorff (born 1932) is the Gregory Bateson professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

Klaus Krippendorff was born in 1932 in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. In 1954, he graduated with an engineering degree from the State Engineering School Hannover. In 1961, he graduated as diplom-designer from the internationally famed avantgarde Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm), Germany. And in 1967, he received his Ph.D. in communications from the pioneering Institute for Communication Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Krippendorff started to work as an engineer and during the last year of his graduate study of design he was a Research Assistant at the Institute for Visual Perception at the Ulm School of Design. In 1961 he came to the United States with a two-year Ford International Fellowship, first to Princeton University but completing his second graduate education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1964, he joined the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a professor of communication.

He is or was a member of the editorial boards of some 20 academic journals, such as Communication and Information Science, Communication Research, Constructivist Foundations, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, International Journal of Cultural Studies and the Journal of Communication. He reviewed for many instutitutions and journals from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and Austrian, Israeli, and Swiss Science Foundations to The Sociological Quarterly, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal for Peace Research, the Management Communication Quarterly and the Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism.

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