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(1926-2016) Historian. Fritz Stern was born in Breslau,Germany, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Fritz Stern

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1926

BIRTH

Fritz Richard Stern was born in Breslau, Germany, on February 2, 1926.

1946

OTHER

Dr. Stern taught at Columbia University from 1946 until 1996.

1950

OTHER

Dr. Stern taught at Cornell University in the early 1950s.

1961

LITWORK

The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology
University of California Press

Nonfiction.

1972

LITWORK

The Failure of Illiberalism: Essays on the Political Culture of Modern Germany
London, George Allen & Unwin
0-04-943019-X
A collection of essays.

1977

LITWORK

Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichroder and the Building of the German Empire
Alfred A. Knopf
0394495454 / 978-0394495453
Nonfiction.

1987

LITWORK

Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History
Knopf
0394559959 / 978-0394559957
Nonfiction.

1999

LITWORK

Einstein's German World
Princeton University Press
069105939X / 978-0691059396
Nonfiction.

2006

LITWORK

Five Germanys I Have Known
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374155402 / 978-0374155407
Memoir and history.

2013

LITWORK

No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi: Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State
New York Review Books
1590176812 / 978-1590176818
Nonfiction written with Elisabeth Sifton.

2016

DEATH

Fritz Stern died at his home in Manhattan, New York, on May 18, 2016.

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