Editing Joseph Schumpeter (section)

==Personal life==
Schumpeter was married three times.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hawthorn |first=Geoffrey |title=Schumpeter the Superior |journal=London Review of Books |date=February 27, 1992 |volume=14 |issue=4 |url= https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n04/geoffrey-hawthorn/schumpeter-the-superior |access-date=December 19, 2019}}</ref> His first wife was Gladys Ricarde Seaver, an Englishwoman nearly 12 years his senior (married 1907, separated 1913, divorced 1925). His best man at his wedding was his friend and Austrian jurist [[Hans Kelsen]]. His second was Anna Reisinger, 20 years his junior and daughter of the [[concierge]] of the apartment where he grew up. As a divorced man, he and his bride converted to [[Lutheranism]] to marry.<ref>{{cite book |last=Swedberg |first=Richard |title=Joseph A. Schumpeter: His Life and Work |date=2013 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0745668703 |page=1894 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ORUNAAAAQBAJ&q=Annie+as+well+as+Schumpeter+had+to+convert+to+Lutheranism+in+order+to+marry&pg=RA1-PA1894 |access-date=December 19, 2019}}</ref> They married in 1925, but within a year, she died in childbirth. The loss of his wife and newborn son came only weeks after Schumpeter's mother had died. Five years after arriving in the US, in 1937, at the age of 54, Schumpeter married the American economic historian Dr. Elizabeth Boody (1898–1953), who helped him popularize his work and edited what became their magnum opus, the posthumously published ''History of Economic Analysis''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Andersen |first=Esben S. |title=Joseph A. Schumpeter: a theory of social and economic evolution |date=2011 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1403996275}}</ref> Elizabeth assisted him with his research and English writing until his death.<ref>{{cite web |title=Romaine Elizabeth (Boody) Schumpeter, 1898-1953 - Social Networks and Archival Context |url= https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60x2t0t |website=snaccooperative.org}}</ref>

Schumpeter claimed that he had set himself three goals in life: to be the greatest economist in the world, to be the best horseman in all of Austria, and the greatest lover in all of [[Vienna]]. He said he had reached two of his goals, but he never said which two,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Viksnins |first1=George J. |title=Economic systems in historical perspective |date=1997 |publisher=Kendall/Hunt Publishers |location=Dubuque, Iowa |isbn=9780787233761}}</ref><ref>Schumpeter's Diary as quoted in "Prophet of Innovation" by Thomas McCraw, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wBXQOuQ73vwC&q=horseman&pg=PP1 p. 4].</ref> although he is reported to have said that there were too many fine horsemen in Austria for him to succeed in all his aspirations.<ref>P. A. Samuelson and W. D. Nordhaus, ''Economics'' (1998, p. 178)</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Humphrey |first1=Thomas M. |title=Analyst of Change |url= https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/econ_focus/2007/fall/pdf/book_review.pdf |publisher=Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |access-date=May 12, 2019}}</ref>