Peter Gay

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Gender	Male
Death	8 years ago
Date of birth	June 20,1923
Zodiac sign	Gemini
Born	Berlin
	Germany
Date of died	May 12,2015
Died	Manhattan
	New York City
	New York
	United States
Spouse	Ruth Gay
Job	Professor
	Author
	Historian
Education	Columbia University
	University of Denver
Awards	Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
	National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)
	Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
	American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for History
Date of Reg.	2019-03-05 03:03:52
Date of Upd.	2023-07-19 20:54:47
ID	505390

The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
Freud: A Life For Our Time
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy
Weimar culture: the outsider as insider
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud
The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud
My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
Education of the senses
Style in history
Freud for Historians
The tender passion
Party of Humanity
The Naked Heart
Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914
Why the Romantics Matter
A Godless Jew
Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks
Reading Freud: Explorations & Entertainments
Voltaire's politics
Mozart: A Life
Freud, Jews, and other Germans
Mozart
Savage Reprisals
The dilemma of democratic socialism
Historians at Work
Art and Act: On Causes in History--Manet, Gropius, Mondrian
A loss of mastery
Deism; an anthology
Mozart: A Penguin Life
Schnitzler's Century: Love, Hate and Privacy in the Victorian Bourgeoisie
The Bourgeois Experience: The tender passion
Modern Europe:
Age of Enlightenment

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Peter Gay Life story

Peter Gay was a German-American historian, educator and author. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers. Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004.