Subject: Hayek's name(posted 8757 days ago)Brad -- I was just looking at your web page on Friedrich Hayek. A short note on Hayek's name. By law in 1920 all Austrian citizens no longer had a "von" as a part of their names, thus after 1920 Friedrich Hayek's legal name was Friedrich A. Hayek, and not Friedrich A. von Hayek.
Hayek's professional work was published under his name Friedrich A. Hayek -- his name according to law and use. Most of his work, in fact, was published under the name F. A. Hayek.
The upshot is that Hayek's name is Hayek, and not "von" Hayek. I haven't as yet figured out why so many call Hayek 'von' Hayek (no academics known to me who do scholarship on Hayek use the name '"von" Hayek).
Hayek notes in an interview that Labor Party members refered to him as "von" Hayek in the press in the immediate post WWII period as an intentional smear -- to associated Hayek with the German's and the Nazis. Also the Swedish Nobel committee used the name "von" Hayek -- I've never heard the story why they chose to do this. Non-scholars mistakenly call Hayek "von" Hayek as a result, hearing about Hayek thru a source talking about Hayek in relation to his Nobel Prize in economics.