Editing Michael Moritz (section)

==Early life and education==
Michael Jonathan Moritz was born to a Jewish family<ref>[http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-billionaire-michael-moritz-gives-115-million-to-oxford/ "Jewish billionaire Michael Moritz gives $115 million to Oxford – Funding a scholarship program in honor of his father who escaped Nazi Germany and studied at Oxford with similar financial assistance"], ''Times of Israel'', 16 July 2012.</ref> in [[Cardiff]], Wales, on 12 September 1954. His father, Ludwig Alfred Moritz (1921–2003), was a Jew who fled [[Nazi Germany]]. A professor of Classics at Cardiff University, in the 1970s, he became its Vice Principal (Administration).<ref>Personal knowledge of the editor, who worked with Alfred Moritz in the Registry of Cardiff University</ref> His mother, Doris (née Rath; 1924–2019), also fled Nazi Germany. Moritz attended [[Howardian High School]] in Cardiff.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18809606|title=Profile: Michael Moritz|date=2012-07-12|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-11-13}}</ref>

Moritz earned a bachelor's degree in history at [[Christ Church, Oxford]], and in 1978, an MBA from the [[Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania]] as a [[Thouron Award|Thouron scholar]].<ref name="linkedin"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thouronaward.org/docs/thouronnewssu07.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=6 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814043625/http://www.thouronaward.org/docs/thouronnewssu07.pdf |archive-date=14 August 2014  }}</ref>