Peter Viereck

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Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (born August 5, 1916 in New York , † May 13, 2006 in South Hadley , Massachusetts ) was an American university professor, writer and Pulitzer Prize winner .

Life

Peter Viereck was the son of the poet George Sylvester Viereck and grandson of Louis Viereck . In 1937 Viereck received a BA in history ( summa cum laude ) from Harvard University . This was followed by the Master of Arts in 1939 and the Ph.D. in 1942. , also at Harvard.

Viereck was a history professor at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts for many years until his retirement . Before the United States entered the Second World War , he analyzed the irrational and mythical elements of National Socialism in his essay Metapolitics: From the Romantics to Hitler , published by AA Knopf in New York in 1941 .

In 1949 he received the Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his work Terror and decorum .

Works (selection)

Poetry

  • Terror and decorum (1948)
  • Strike through the mask! (1950)
  • The first morning (1956)
  • The persimmon tree (1956)
  • New and selected poems 1932-67 (1967)
  • Archer in the marrow (1987)

Essays

  • Metapolitics. From the romantics to Hitler (1941)
  • Conservatism revisited (1949)
  • Conservatism (1956)
  • The unadjusted man (1956)

literature

  • Marie Henault: Peter Viereck . Twayne Publishers, New York 1969.

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personal data
SURNAME Viereck, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American college professor, writer, and Pulitzer Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2006
Place of death South Hadley , Massachusetts