Peter Gay  (1923-2015) *91

Birth of Peter Gay

• Date of Birth:

  June  20, 1923

• Day of Birth:

  Wednesday

• Place of birth:

  Germany (de)

• Birth Anniversary:

   in 281 days

• Time since birth: 

  35879 days = 98 years

Death of Peter Gay

• Date of Death:

  May 12, 2015

• Died at Age:

  91 years

• Day of Death:

  Tuesday

• Death Anniversary:

   in 242 days

• Time since death: 

  2315 days = 6 years

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• Sex:

  male

• Days of The Life:

  33564 days

• Zodiac / Star Sign:

  Gemini (gemini)

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Biography and Life edit

born Peter Joachim Fröhlich was the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers (1997–2003). Gay received the American Historical Association's (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, a multi-volume award winner; Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968), a bestseller; and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988).

Peter Gay was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923 and immigrated to the United States in 1941. From 1948 to 1955 he was a political science professor at Columbia University, and then a history professor from 1955 to 1969. He left Columbia in 1969 to join Yale University’s History Department as Professor of Comparative and Intellectual European History, and was named Sterling Professor of History in 1984. Sander L. Gilman, a literary historian at Emory University, called Gay "one of the major American historians of European thought, period".

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