Gay's 1959 book, Voltaire's Politics: The Poet as Realist, examined Voltaire as a politician and how his politics influenced the ideas that Voltaire championed in his writings. The New York Times described him in 2007 as "the country's pre-eminent cultural historian". He taught at Yale University from 1969 until his retirement in 1993.Īccording to the American Historical Association's Award Citation, Gay's range of "scholarly achievements is truly remarkable". Gay taught political science at Columbia between 1948–1955 and history from 1955 to 1969. in 1946, and at Columbia University, where he received his M.A.
Gay was educated at the University of Denver, where he received his B.A.
Gay arrived in the United States in 1941, took American citizenship in 1946, and changed his name from Fröhlich (German for "happy") to Gay (an English calque). Louis, whose passengers were eventually turned away and forced to return to Europe, but they fortuitously changed their booking to the SS Iberia, which left two weeks earlier. He and his family fled Nazi Germany in 1939, when he was 15 years old. JSTOR ( July 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īorn Peter Joachim Fröhlich to a Jewish family in Berlin, he was educated as a child at Berlin's Goethe- Gymnasium.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. Gilman, a literary historian at Emory University, called Gay "one of the major American historians of European thought, period". Gay was the interim editor of The American Scholar after the death of Hiram Haydn in 1973 and served on that magazine's editorial board for many years. He left Columbia in 1969 to join Yale University's History Department as Professor of Comparative and Intellectual European History and was named Sterling Professor of History in 1984. From 1948 to 1955 he was a political science professor at Columbia University, and then a history professor from 1955 to 1969. Gay was born in Berlin in 1923 and emigrated, via Cuba, to the United States in 1941. He authored over 25 books, including The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, a two-volume award winner Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968), a bestseller and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988). He received the American Historical Association's (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers (1997–2003). Peter Joachim Gay ( né Fröhlich J– May 12, 2015) was a German-American historian, educator, and author.
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