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(1923-2015) Historian. Peter Gay was born in Berlin, Germany, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Peter Gay

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1923

BIRTH

Peter Joachim Frolich was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1923.

1947

OTHER

Mr. Gay earned a master's degree in history at Columbia University in 1947 and taught political science there from 1947 to 1955.

1952

OTHER

Mr. Gay earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1952.

1959

LITWORK

Voltaire's Politics
Princeton University Press

Nonfiction.

1966

LITWORK

The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise Of Modern Paganism
Alfred A Knopf

Nonfiction.

1968

LITWORK

Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
Harper & Row

Nonfiction.

1969

LITWORK

The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, The Science Of Freedom
Knopf

Nonfiction.

1978

LITWORK

Freud, Jews and Other Germans
Oxford University Press
0195022580 / 978-0195022582
Nonfiction.

1985

LITWORK

Freud for Historians
Oxford University Press
0195035860 / 978-0195035865
Nonfiction.

1988

LITWORK

Sigmund Freud: A Life for Our Time
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
0393025179 / 978-0393025170
Nonfiction.

1993

LITWORK

The Cultivation of Hatred
W. W. Norton & Company
0393033988 / 978-0393033984
Nonfiction.

1998

LITWORK

My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
Yale University Press
0300076703 / 978-0300076707
Nonfiction.

2002

LITWORK

Schnitzler's Century
W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, New York
0393048934 / 978-0393048933
Nonfiction.

2015

DEATH

Peter Gay died at his home in Manhattan, New York, on May 12, 2015.

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