Peter Gay

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American historian German-born American historian author historian

Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.

Aliases (1)

Peter Gay, a German-American historian ×1

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American historian → German-born American historian → author → historian →
academicDegree	PhD in history →
awardReceived	American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction → National Book Award → PEN New England Award →
birthName	Peter Joachim Fröhlich →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
citizenship	United States of America →
countryOfBirth	Germany →
countryOfDeath	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1923-06-20 →
dateOfDeath	2015-05-12 →
educatedAt	Columbia University → University of Denver →
employer	Columbia University → Yale University →
ethnicGroup	Jewish →
fieldOfWork	Enlightenment studies → cultural history → history → history of ideas → history of psychoanalysis → intellectual history →
genre	biography → historical writing → non-fiction →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movedTo	United States of America →
movement	intellectual history of the Enlightenment →
name	Peter Gay →
notableFor	history of psychoanalysis → studies of the Enlightenment → studies of the Victorian middle class →
notableWork	Education of the Senses → Freud: A Life for Our Time → Pleasure Wars → The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud → The Cultivation of Hatred → The Enlightenment: An Interpretation → The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism → The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom → The Naked Heart → The Tender Passion → Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider →
occupation	author → historian → university professor →
placeOfBirth	Berlin, Germany →
placeOfDeath	New York City, New York, United States →
positionHeld	Sterling Professor of History at Yale University → professor of history at Columbia University → professor of history at Yale University →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Education of the Senses → Freud: A Life for Our Time → Pleasure Wars → The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud → The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud → The Cultivation of Hatred → The Enlightenment: An Interpretation → The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism → The Naked Heart → The Tender Passion → Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider →	author
Pleasure Wars ("Peter Gay, a German-American historian") → The Cultivation of Hatred →	writtenBy
Gay →	hasNotableBearer
Ernst Cassirer →	influenced
Peter Gay →	name