Peter Gay
Peter Gay (born Peter Joachim Fröhlich; June 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015) was a German-American educator and psychohistorian. He was the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers (1997–2003).
Gay was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. He immigrated to the United States in 1941. From 1948 to 1955 he was a political science professor at Columbia University, and then a history professor from 1955 to 1969.
He was the author of more than twenty-five books, including The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, a multi-volume award winner; Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968), a bestseller; and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988).[1]
Gay was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 1996.[2] He received the American Historical Association's (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004.
Gay died in New York City, aged 91.[3]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ W.W. Norton Publishers
- ↑ "Peter Gay". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
- ↑ "Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91". The New York Times.com. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Toews, John "Historicizing Psychoanalysis: Freud in His Time and of Our Time" pages 504-545 from Journal of Modern History, Volume 63, 1991.
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