Peter Gay

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Peter Jack Gay (born June 20, 1923 in Berlin as Peter Joachim Fröhlich ; died May 12, 2015 in New York City ) was an American historian with a focus on the Age of Enlightenment and the bourgeoisie, as well as psychoanalysis .

Life

Peter Fröhlich was the son of the businessman Moritz Fröhlich and Helga Kohnke, both of whom came from Silesia. From 1933 he attended the Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin, but was expelled from school in 1938 as a non- Aryan. In April 1939 the family emigrated to Cuba due to the persecution of the German Jews and in 1941 to the USA in New York City. Since 1943 the family called themselves Gay , in 1946 Peter Gay received American citizenship.

Gay studied from 1943 at the University of Denver and from 1946 at Columbia University , where he received his doctorate in 1951 and received a position as assistant professor. Since 1969 he was Gay Professor of History at Yale University ( retired since 1993) and Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Calman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library .

For his works, Gay received the National Book Award in 1967 and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1969 . 1983/1984 Peter Gay Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Among other things, he published a biography on Sigmund Freud , a monograph on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a five-volume cultural history of the 19th century. In 1990 he received the AH Heineken Prize for History .

In 1967, Gay was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He had been an elected member of the American Philosophical Society since 1987. In 1989 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1999 Gay received the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis from the regional association of Bavarian publishers and bookstores and the city of Munich for his autobiography My German Question .

Gay was a trained psychoanalyst . Since 1959 he was married to the art historian and author Ruth Gay (born Slotkin, 1922–2006), whose three daughters he adopted. He died on May 12, 2015 at the age of 91 in Manhattan, New York .

Fonts

  • The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism: Eduard Bernstein's Challenge to Marx . 1952. At the same time philological dissertation Columbia University, New York 1951.
  • Voltaire's Politics: The Poet as Realist . 1959.
  • The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment . 1964.
  • The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism . 1966.
  • A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America . 1966.
  • Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider . 1968.
    • The Republic of the Outsiders. Spirit and culture in the Weimar period: 1918–1933 , translated by Helmut Lindemann. S. Fischer Verlag 1968.
  • The enlightenment. An interpretation: The Science of Freedom . 1969.
  • The Bridge of Criticism: Dialogues on the Enlightenment . 1970.
  • Historians at Work . 1972.
  • with RK Webb: Modern Europe . 1973.
  • The Enlightenment: A Comprehensive Anthology . 1973.
  • Style in history . 1974.
  • Art and Act: On Causes in History — Manet, Gropius, Mondrian . 1976.
  • Freud, Jews and other Germans. Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture . Oxford University Press, New York (New York) 1978.
    • Freud, Jews and other Germans. Lords and victims in modern culture . From the American by Karl Berisch. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-455-08646-2 .
  • Education of the Senses . 1984.
  • The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud . 5 volumes, 1984–1998.
    • Vol. 1: Education of the Senses. 1984
    • Vol. 2: The Tender Passion. 1986
    • Vol. 3: The Cultivation of Hatred . 1993
    • Vol. 4: The Naked Heart. 1995
    • Vol. 5: Pleasure Wars. 1998
      German edition: Beck, Munich. Translated by Ulrich Enderwitz
      • Vol. 1: Education of the Senses: Sexuality in the Bourgeois Age. 1986
      • Vol. 2: The tender passion: love in the bourgeois age. 1987
      • Vol. 3: Cult of Violence: Aggression in the Bourgeois Age. 1996
      • Vol. 4: The power of the heart: the 19th century and the exploration of the self. 1997
      • Vol. 5: Citizens and Boheme: Art Wars of the 19th Century. 1999
  • Freud for Historians .
    • Freud for historians . Translated by Monika Noll. Edition diskord, Tübingen 1994 (series: Forum Psychohistorie, 2) ISBN 3-89295-580-8 .
  • The Tender Passion 1986.
  • A Godless Jew. Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis . Yale University Press, New Haven (Connecticut) / London 1987.
    • "A godless Jew". Sigmund Freud's Atheism and the Development of Psychoanalysis . From the American by Karl Berisch. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-10-025902-5 .
  • Freud. A life for our time . WW Norton, New York (New York) 1987.
    • Freud. A biography for our time . [With a foreword [by the author] to the German edition]. From the American [translated] by Joachim A. Frank. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-10-025903-3 .
  • Editor: A Freud Reader . 1989.
  • Reading Freud: Explorations & Entertainments . 1990.
  • Sigmund Freud and Art: His Personal Collection of Antiquities 1993.
  • The Cultivation of Hatred . 1993.
  • The Naked Heart . 1995.
    • The Power of the Heart: The 19th Century and the Exploration of the Self . Beck Munich 1997 (Review: Ute Frevert in Die Zeit, October 17, 1997).
  • The Enlightenment and the Rise of Modern Paganism . Revised 1995.
  • Pleasure Wars . 1998.
  • My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin . Autobiography, 1998.
    • My German question. Youth in Berlin 1933–1939 . CH Beck, Munich 1999.
  • Mozart . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1999.
    • Mozart . Claassen, Munich 2001.
  • Schnitzler's Century . 2002.
    • The Age of Doctor Arthur Schnitzler. Interior views of the 19th century . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002 (Review: Ludger Lütkehaus in: Die Zeit . October 2002).
  • God is an invention . In: Martin Doerry (Ed.): Nowhere and everywhere at home. Conversations with survivors of the Holocaust . DVA , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-421-04207-1 (also as CD), pp. 60-67.
  • Modernism: The Lure of Heresy. From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond . Norton, New York 2008.
  • Why the Romantics Mattered . Yale University Press, New Haven 2015, ISBN 978-0300144291 .

literature

  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 360f.
  • Lorenz Jäger : History of ideas with Freud. On the death of the historian Peter Gay. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 15, 2015, No. 111, p. 12.
  • Richard J. Evans : Peter Gay Obituary . The Guardian, May 24, 2015 ( online ).
  • Helmut Walser Smith and Meike G. Werner: Peter Gay (1923–2015). In: Historical magazine . Vol. 302 (2016), pp. 886-890.
  • Andreas W. Daum : Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians. Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities. In: Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (Eds.): The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. Berghahn, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 1–52 (for the biography of Peter Gay also pp. 368–370).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Volker Breidecker: Cultural historian Peter Gay has died . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 15, 2015, p. 12 (accessed May 15, 2015).
  2. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 2, 2016
  3. ↑ Member History: Peter Gay. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 17, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Members: Peter Gay. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Lorenz Jäger : History of ideas with Freud. On the death of the historian Peter Gay. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 15, 2015, No. 111, p. 12.
  6. ^ William Grimes: Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91. In: The New York Times, May 12, 2015 (accessed May 12, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Gay, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gay, Peter Jack; Fröhlich, Peter Joachim (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, psychoanalyst, and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2015
Place of death New York City