Gerard E. Caspary
Gerard Ernest Caspary (born January 10, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 6, 2008 in Berkeley ) was an American historian of German origin.
Gert Caspary was the son of Ernst Caspary (born July 11, 1896 in Quedlinburg ) and his wife Sophie (born May 29, 1900 in Fürth , née Krautheimer). His parents had to flee to Paris as Jews in April 1933 . They were brought to Drancy in October 1942, deported to Auschwitz in November 1942 and murdered there. Gert survived hiding in the south of France and emigrated to the USA in 1945, where his mother's brother, the art historian Richard Krautheimer and his wife Trude took care of him.
He studied first at Swarthmore College (BA 1950), then at Harvard University (MA 1952, Ph.D. 1962). From 1957 to 1970 he taught medieval history as an assistant or asociate professor at Smith College . From 1970 he taught medieval intellectual history at the University of California, Berkeley , initially as an associate professor and from 1978 to 2004 as a full professor .
In 1962 Caspary received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research.
Publications
- Politics and Exegesis. Origen and the Two Swords , Berkeley, University of California Press 1979, ISBN 0-520-03445-7
literature
- Andreas W. Daum , Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (Eds.): The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 .
Web links
- Paula S. Fass, Geoffrey Koziol, Irwin Scheiner: In Memoriam Gerard Ernest Caspary
- UC Newsroom, April 10, 2008
- estate
- Genealogical information
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caspary, Gerard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Caspary, Gert; Caspary, Gerard Ernest; Caspary, Gerry (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 2008 |
| Place of death | Berkeley |