Peter Gay ( Eng. Peter Gay ; June 20, 1923 , Berlin - May 12, 2015 , New York ) is an American historian of European culture and social thought.
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| Awards and prizes | Guggenheim Scholarship (1966, 1967) (1969) Hans and Sophie Scholl Prize (1999) Heineken Prize for History (1990) Oscar Pfister Award (1990) |
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Biography
From a Jewish family, his own name is Peter Joachim Fröhlich. In 1939, he left Nazi Germany with his family, moved to Cuba , and in 1941 arrived in the United States. In 1946 he received American citizenship, took the English version of his German surname. He graduated from the University of Denver ( 1946 ), and then Columbia University ( 1951 ). He taught political science ( 1948 - 1955 ) and history ( 1955 - 1969 ) at Columbia University. Since 1969 - Professor of Intellectual History of Europe at Yale University . He retired in 1993 .
Scientific Interests
The main works are devoted to the philosophy of the Enlightenment , the culture of the Weimar Republic , and the ideas of modernism . His monographs about Voltaire , Mozart , Freud , Schnitzler gained fame .
Selected Works
- Voltaire's Politics: The Poet as Realist ( 1959 )
- Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider ( 1968 )
- The Enlightenment: An Interpretation ( 1969 )
- Modern Europe ( 1973 , co-authored)
- The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (5 vols., 1984 - 1998 )
- Freud: A Life for Our Time ( 1988 )
- The Cultivation of Hatred ( 1993 )
- My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin ( 1998 , autobiography)
- Mozart ( 1999 )
- Schnitzler's Century ( 2002 )
- Modernism: The Lure of Heresy ( 2007 )
Recognition
National Book Award ( 1966 ), Heineken Prize (1990), Gold Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1992 ), a number of other scientific awards and distinctions. Hans and Sophie Scholl Prize ( 1999 ).
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Solomon Guggenheim Museum - 1937.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116472618 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91 / D. Baquet - Manhattan , New York City : The New York Times Company , AG Sulzberger , 1851. - ISSN 0362-4331 ; 1553-8095
Literature
- Berenzon B. Historia es inconsciente. La historia cultural: Peter Gay y Robert Darnton. México: Colegio de San Luis, 1999