Peter Paret

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Peter Paret (born April 13, 1924 in Berlin ; † September 11, 2020 in Salt Lake City ) was an American historian of German origin. Most recently , he was Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Life

Paret was born in 1924 as the son of the philosopher and art historian Hans Paret (1896–1973) and Suzanne Aimée Cassirer (1896–1963), a daughter of the Berlin publisher and gallery owner Paul Cassirer . The parents separated in 1932. Paret grew up with his mother, who was a student of Sigmund Freud from 1932 and in 1934 married the Viennese psychoanalyst and reform pedagogue Siegfried Bernfeld (1892-1953). Paret emigrated with his mother of Jewish origin, his sister and stepfather, via Menton on the Côte d'Azur (1934–1936) and London in 1937 to the USA. The family was born in San Francisco ,California resident. He studied from 1942 to 1943 and from 1946 to 1949 at the University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Arts). In the meantime he served with the 1st Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the United States Army , for which he was deployed from 1943 to 1946 in the Pacific War in New Guinea , the Philippines ( Luzon ) and Korea . His last rank was staff sergeant .

From 1959 to 1960 he was a tutor at the University of Oxford . In 1960 he made his Ph.D. at the University of London . He then worked as a research assistant at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University . He then taught at the University of California, Davis , where he became Professor of History in 1966. From 1966 to 1967 he was a member of the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study. He was then a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. In 1966 he was entrusted with the Harmon Memorial Lecture in Military History at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. From 1969 to 1977 he was Professor of History at Stanford University . In 1971/72 he spent a research stay at the London School of Economics and Political Science . From 1977 to 1986 he was Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University. During this time he conducted research for the Historical Commission in Berlin (of which he was a member) and the National Endowment for the Humanities .

From 1986 to 1997 he was the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities at Princeton and at the same time from 1988 to 1993 a Senior Fellowship at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace in Stanford. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Center of Historical Analysis at Rutgers University from 1993 to 1995 . Since 1997 he has been Professor Emeritus.

In 2008 he was Lees Knowles lecturer at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge and 2009 guest curator at the Princeton University Art Museum. Paret was also a member of the American Philosophical Society (from 1991 to 1997 Member of Council), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , Honorary Member of the London School of Economics and Political Science, Honorary Member of the Clausewitz Society , Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute . His main research interests were in the fields of military , cultural and art history, with a particular focus on German history. The Prussian military theorist General Carl von Clausewitz received special attention .

He was married and had two children. Paret died in September 2020 at the age of 96.

Awards

Fonts

  • with John Shy : Guerrillas in the 1960s (= Princeton Studies in World Politics. No. 1). Praeger, New York 1961.
  • French Revolutionary Warfare from Indochina to Algeria (= Princeton Studies in World Politics. No. 6). Praeger, New York 1964.
  • Yorck and the era of Prussian reform 1807-1815 . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1966.
  • The Berlin Secession. Modern art and its enemies in imperial Germany . Unabridged edition, Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-548-36074-2 . (English title: The Berlin secession )
  • with Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert (Eds.): Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1986, ISBN 0-691-09235-4 . (including the chapters Napoleon and the Revolution in War and Clausewitz by Paret )
  • Art as history. Culture and politics from Menzel to Fontane . CH Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34425-9 . (English title: Art as history )
  • Understanding was. Essays on Clausewitz and the history of military power . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1992, ISBN 0-691-03199-1 .
  • with Beth Irwin Lewis and Paul Paret: Persuasive images. Posters from war and revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1992, ISBN 0-691-03204-1 .
  • Clausewitz and the state. Man, his theories and his time . Dümmler, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-427-82091-2 . (English title: Clausewitz and the state )
  • Imagined Battles. Reflections of War in European Art . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1997, ISBN 0-8078-2356-2 .
  • German encounters with modernism, 1840-1945 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001, ISBN 0-521-79456-0 .
  • An artist in the Third Reich. Ernst Barlach 1933–1945 . wjs, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937989-15-3 . (English title: An artist against the Third Reich. Ernst Barlach, 1933–1938 )
  • The Cognitive Challenge of War. Prussia 1806 . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2009, ISBN 978-1-4008-3134-0 .
  • Myth and modernity. Barlach's drawings on the Nibelungen . Berghahn Books, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-85745-346-4 .
  • Clausewitz in his time: Essays in the cultural and intellectual history of thinking about war . Berghahn Books, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-78238-581-3 . German edition: Clausewitz in his time. On the cultural and intellectual history of thinking about war . Königshausen u. Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6076-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas W. Daum: Master of the splits. On the death of the historian Peter Paret. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 17, 2020, p. 11 (online: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/zum-tod-des-historikers-peter-paret-16956361.html )
  2. ^ Peter Paret: External Events, Inner Drives . 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. 72-78 .
  3. ↑ a b c Élisabeth Roudinesco , Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Names, countries, works, terms . Translated from the French. Springer, Vienna / New York 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 85-87.
personal data
SURNAME Paret, Peter
SHORT DESCRIPTION American historian of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2020
Place of death Salt Lake City