Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8, 1922 in New York City ; died December 30, 2019 in Washington, DC ) was an American historian .
Life
Himmelfarb comes from a Jewish-Russian immigrant family. She attended New Utrecht High School in New York. She then studied history, journalism and Jewish literature at Brooklyn College , the University of Chicago , Jewish Theological Seminary and Girton College .
After her Ph.D. she became a professor at the City University of New York . From 1982 to 1988 she was a member of the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities , from 1995 to 1996 the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and from 1984 to 2008 the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress . Himmelfarb has been a consultant to the American Enterprise Institute since 1987 and the author of several books.
Himmelfarb was a member of the British Academy , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society , the Royal Historical Society, and the Society of American Historians .
She was married to the neo-conservative thought leader Irving Kristol and had two children with him, including columnist William Kristol . Her brother was the writer Milton Himmelfarb .
Awards
- 1991: Jefferson Lecture
- 1997: Orwell Award
- 2004: National Humanities Medal
Fonts (selection)
- Darwin and the Darwinian revolution . Doubleday, Garden City 1959.
- Marriage and morals among the Victorians: Essays . Knopf, New York 1986.
- The New History and the Old . Cambridge, Mass. 1987
- The limits of liberalism. In: The Liberal Society. Castelgandolfo talks 1992. Edited by Krzysztof Michalski . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, pp. 133-162.
- The de-moralization of society: from Victorian virtues to modern values . Knopf, New York 1995.
- The Jewish odyssey of George Eliot . Encounter Books, New York 2009.
Web links
- Gertrude Himmelfarb in the Jewish Women's Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member History: Gertrude Himmelfarb. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 30, 2018 (English, with short biography).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sky color, Gertrude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kristol, Bea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 2019 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |