Felix Gilbert

Felix Gilbert ( born May 21, 1905 in Baden -Baden, † February 14, 1991 in Princeton ) was a German - American historian.

The son of William Henry Gilbert (1860-1906), an English ophthalmologist, and Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1874-1923), a daughter of the chemist Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, grew up in Berlin and attended a humanistic Gymnasium. After high school he studied history and philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin. In 1931 he received his doctorate in Friedrich Meinecke in Berlin with a thesis on the historian Johann Gustav Droysen. Threatened due to its partial Jewish descent, Gilbert had to leave during the Nazi era Germany. He went in 1936 over England in the United States. In 1943 he became an American citizen and joined the State Department as a Research Analyst of the Office of Strategic Services. With the American Army, he came to Europe and back to Germany. After his withdrawal, he became a lecturer in 1946 and soon a professor at Bryn Mawr College. In 1962 he became a professor at the School of Historical studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he taught until his retirement in 1975.

The focus of his research work were the Italian, the Florentine Renaissance, and especially the people Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. In addition to the Renaissance wrote Gilbert work on the history of ideas and methods for teaching the history of historiography and modern history.

Writings

  • Venice, the pope and his banker. from the English by Klaus Blocher, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-593-35033-5.
  • Guicciardini, Machiavelli and the history of the Italian Renaissance. Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-8031-5129-5.
  • History - politics or culture? Looking back on a classic conflict. from the English by Christiane Spelsberg, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-593-34726-1.
  • Apprenticeship in old Europe. Memories from 1905 to 1945. translated from the U.S., Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88680-167-5.
  • Machiavelli and Guicciardini. Politics and history in sixteenth -century Florence. New York, 1984, ISBN 0-393-30123-0.
  • Machiavelli e il suo tempo. Bologna 1977.
  • Machiavelli in modern historical scholarship, in: Raymond Aron: Machiavelli nel Vo centenario della birth. Bologna 1973, p 155-171.
  • Niccolò Machiavelli la vita e Culturale del suo tempo. Bologna 1964.
  • Johann Gustav Droysen and the Prussian - German question. Berlin 1931.
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