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• PETER GAY OBUARY
• PETER GAY
• PETER GAY, HISTORIAN WHO EXPLORED SOCIAL HISTORY OF IAS, DI AT 91
• PETER GAY, HISTORIAN WHO WROTE ABOUT FRD AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT, DI
• SEARCH - LIST OF BOOKS BY PETER GAY
• PETER GAY BOOKS
• ALUMN, HISTORIAN PETER GAY DI AT AGE 91

PETER GAY OBUARY

The first volume, subtled The Rise of Morn Paganism, was wily acclaimed far beyond the amic world, and won the Natnal Book award the first volume, subtled The Rise of Morn Pagansim, of Peter Gay’s massive study, was wily acclaimed far beyond the amic world In his encyclopedic The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Frd (five volum between 1984 and 1998), Gay explored wonrfully readable prose a wi range of aspects of the European – pecially the Brish, French and German – and the North Amerin middle class their heyday.

But taken together, they are a fundamental text for anyone who wish to unrstand bourgeois culture the 19th and early 20th was, sentially, the culture to which Gay was born, Berl, as Peter Joachim Fröhlich, the son of Helga and Morz, a small bsman of left-leang views and liberal habs of md.

PETER GAY

Ined, Peter led a charmed life, beg admted to a grammar school unr the Nazis bee his father was a rated and war-wound army veteran and survivg the early years of the Third Reich whout any great difficulty as a blond, blue-eyed boy who did not nform to the Nazi image of a Jewish person any his engrossg memoir, My German Qutn: Growg up Nazi Berl (1998), Gay nfsed that he enuntered antisemism personally only on the very rart of ocsns: once, when, unually, a teacher clared that “Jews always exaggerate” (a remark to which he attributed his later ncern for precisn his historil wrgs), and 1936 when the fay went by r on a tour of Germany and enuntered a notice outsi a village sayg: “Jews are not wanted here.

It means happy, jolly or gay, and they chose the last of the three nam, only for Peter to start receivg hate-mail years later, as the rise of the gay liberatn movement ma homophob thk his surname was a polil studied at the Universy of Colorado, Denver, then took a master’s gree at Columbia Universy, New York, 1947, and a doctorate polil science four years later, on the leadg “revisnist” social mocrat of the Kaiser’s Germany, Eduard Bernste, wh whose views he to a large extent intified. But was not a path that Gay followed his amic reer: stead, he went another directn tght at Columbia om 1947 to 1969, beg profsor 1962, and was then at Yale up to his retirement 1993. His Frdianism was often applied wh a light touch, however, as The Bourgeois Experience, and his many says and shorter books on Frd and aspects of his life and thought were not uncril their approach to the, cultured, urteo and hospable, Gay held many semars and discsns his hoe, fondly remembered by his stunts.

Yee/The New York TimMay 12, 2015Peter Gay, a German-born historian whose sense of tellectual adventure led him to wre groundbreakg books on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, Sigmund Frd, Weimar culture and the cultural suatn of Jews Germany, died on Tuday at his home Manhattan.

PETER GAY, HISTORIAN WHO EXPLORED SOCIAL HISTORY OF IAS, DI AT 91

He was ath was nfirmed by his stepdghter Elizabeth Gay, a refugee om Nazi Germany, voted his reer to explorg the social history of ias, a qut that took him far om his origal area of specializatn, Voltaire and the Enlightenment. Gay to tra at the Wtern New England Instute for Psychoanalysis and motivated him to wre a revisnist psychohistory of the Victorian middle class, “The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Frd, ” whose five volum were published the 1980s and 1990s.

Gay relled the pleasur of attendg the 1936 Olympics — spoiled only by the sight of Hler and Görg the stands — and the nfg mix of savage reprsn and tolerance that characterized life unr the Nazis until 1938.

” They me out the 1980s and the 1990s, not jt the we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 25 of the New York edn wh the headle: Peter Gay, Historian and Frd Bgrapher, Di at 91. Peter Gay, a popular and prizewng historian who meticuloly traced the rise of secular Wtern thought, om a history of the Enlightenment to a bt-sellg bgraphy of Sigmund Frd, died May 12 at his home Manhattan.

PETER GAY, HISTORIAN WHO WROTE ABOUT FRD AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT, DI

Gay studied at the Wtern New England Instute for Psychoanalysis and advoted Frdian techniqu for historil scholarship, rejectg fears that the field would be rced to formulas about childhood sir and nros. Gay wrote the book’s Gay is also creded, through a seri of says and books the 1950s and ’60s, wh changg the image of Enlightenment thkers such as Voltaire om impractil ialists to astute visnari able to work wh the systems they helped overturn. Gay helped fe the Enlightenment era as a pletn of the revival of ancient Greek culture that began wh the Gay received the Natnal Book Award 1967 for his first volume of "The Enlightenment: An Interpretatn, " subtled "The Rise of Morn Paganism.

Gay changed his name upon beg an Amerin cizen 1941, makg a direct translatn of “Froelich” to graduated om the Universy of Denver 1946, then went to Columbia Universy, where he received a master’s gree 1947 and a doctorate 1951 polil tght history at Columbia om 1962 to 1969, then joed Yale as a profsor of parative and tellectual European history.

Memorabily MetricsPage views of Peter Gays by languageAmong HISTORIANSContemporariIn GermanyAmong HISTORIANS In Germany Peter GayPeter Joachim Gay (né Fröhlich; June 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015) was a German-Amerin historian, tor, and thor. Peter Gay is the 341st most popular historian (down om 269th 2019), the 4, 128th most popular bgraphy om Germany (down om 3, 522nd 2019) and the 45th most popular German Historian. " (343)Consirg English belief, Gay wr: "The Englishman's need for peace after a century of upheaval and the revulsn of ted and rpectable man agast relig enthiasm alced wh the growg of thory of naturalism to produce a torpid Church and a tepid relign.

SEARCH - LIST OF BOOKS BY PETER GAY

" (345)Gay ntu, "there was much fort and ltle anxiety sermons purportg to prove that the urse of a Christian life was easy, the reward for good nduct was sure and glor, that God mand men nothg eher unsuable to our reason or prejudicial to our tert; nay, nothg that is severe and agast the gra of our nature, and that, on the ntrary, the laws of God are reasonable, that is sued to our nature and advantageo to our tert.

PETER GAY BOOKS

I should also add that thanks to Gay's mand of the wrten word, the book is tly a joy to read; there were tim when I found myself wonrg how much I uld really be learng, given how betifully the sentenc flowed. I suppose says somethg about the medcre standard of wrg most morn scholarly works that one's spicns should be aroed when enunterg a volume by as acplished a stylist as Peter Gay. " -- Peter GayPeter Gay (born June 20, 1923) is Sterlg Profsor of History Emer at Yale Universy and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Wrers (1997—2003).

Gay followed the succs of Voltaire's Polics wh a wir history of the Enlightenment, The Enlightenment: An Interpretatn (1969), for which he was honored wh the Natnal Book Award 1967 and the Mecher Book Prize. Gilman, a lerary historian at Emory Universy, lled Gay "one of the major Amerin historians of European thought, perd" life and tn Born June 1923 as Peter Joachim Fröhlich Berl, he and his fay fled om Nazi Germany 1939 and arrived the U.

ALUMN, HISTORIAN PETER GAY DI AT AGE 91

Gay followed the succs of Voltaire's Polics wh a wir history of the Enlightenment, The Enlightenment: An Interpretatn (1966, 1969, 1973), whose first volume won the 1967 U. Annelien Dijn argu that Gay, The Enlightenment, first formulated the terpretatn that the Enlightenment brought polil mornizatn to the Wt, terms of troducg mocratic valu and stutns and the creatn of morn, liberal mocraci. Gay's 2007 book Mornism: The Lure of Hery explor the mornist movement the arts om the 1840s to the 1960s, om s begngs Paris to s spread to Berl and New York Cy, endg wh s ath 1960s pop art.

Awards and regnn Gay received numero awards for his scholarship, cludg the Natnal Book Award History and Bgraphy for The Rise of Morn Paganism (1967), the first volume of The Enlightenment; the first Amsterdam Prize for Historil Science om The Hague, 1990; and the Gold Medal of the Amerin Amy of Arts and Letters, 1992. Heeken Prize, 1990 Amerin Amy and Instute of Arts and Letters, 1989 New York Public Library, Library Ln, 1988 Natnal Book Award, 1967 Guggenheim Fellowship 1966 ^ " "Peter Gay, tellectual historian, ad at age 91". ', but perhaps that is me and my over active key pots are then that this is a short book (152 pag pl a 23 page history of the Republic as an appendix) which draws attentn to Gay's idsyncrasi - a lengthy six or seven pag given over to The Magic Mounta and his theme -The Outsir as Insir a visn of the Weimar republic as domated by forc and perspectiv which had been prent Imperial Germany but which had then been on the peripheri, as you n image such circumstanc the big story is the centre ground strikg back, and the centre ground this se was anti-Republin, Monarchist, Authorarian and generally polilly right-wg (particularly noticeable he pots out among the judiciary who gave light sentenc to polil crimals om the polil Right, but heavy on to those om the polil Left) early years were years of civil war, then 1929 the wall street crash brought down such polil stabily as there had been (a revolvg door of temperamental aln ernments which mostly managed to last about a year or so before they need to be broken apart and reassembled like buildg blocks).

For Gay the artistic movements of the tim mirrored the polil velopments as illtrated by the brief life of the Bhs (though gets ls space than The Magic Mounta, only Thomas Mann gets a reasonable amount of space - though other cultural figur are name checked, this is a book that might help build up the sense of the cultural amework of the Weimar era but which do not fill the tails, he was bt I thought on lerary wrers who wh the exceptn of Thomas Mann he sums up quickly and mov on, generally a few sharp words, a b tty, but not pletely unfair (Hermann Hse he scrib as wrg about puberty wh "a psychoanalytil twist" (p.