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Gay, Peter, 1923-2015 (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Gay, Peter, 1923-2015
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  • Fröhlich, Peter Joachim, 1923-2015
  • ゲイピーター, 1923-2015

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His The dilemma of democratic socialism, 1952.

My German question, c1998: CIP t.p. (Peter Gay) data sheet (b. 6/20/23) pub. info. (b. in Berlin; Ph.D., Columbia Univ., NYC, 1951; taught at Columbia and Yale; Dir. of Ctr. for Scholars & Writers, N.Y. Public Lib.)

New York times (online), viewed May 12, 2015 (Peter Gay; b. Peter Joachim Fröhlich, 1923, Berlin; emigrated with his family to Havana in 1939; gained entry into the United States in 1941 and settled in Denver; because Americans found his last name difficult to pronounce, he changed it to its English equivalent; taught political science at Columbia from 1947 to 1955, but after being passed over for promotion, joined the university's history department at the invitation of Richard Hofstadter; in 1969, joined the history faculty at Yale, where he taught until retiring in 1993; d. Tuesday [May 12, 2015], Manhattan, aged 91; German-born historian whose sense of intellectual adventure led him to write groundbreaking books on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle classes, Sigmund Freud, Weimar culture, and the cultural situation of Jews in Germany)

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