| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Peter Gay | | | Institution: | Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library & Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | May 12, 2015 | | | | | | |
Peter Gay was born Peter Joachim Fröhlich in Berlin in 1923. After witnessing Kristallnacht, he fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and arrived in the United States in 1941. After earning his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, Dr. Gay became a political science professor and history professor at Columbia. In 1969 he moved to Yale University, where he taught until his retirement in 1993 and became Sterling Professor Emeritus of History. Dr. Gay's richness and range of historical interests are suggested in his many publications, from Voltaire's Politics (1959) to Weimar Culture (1968) to the five-volume The Bourgeois Experience (1984-98). A leading champion of psychoanalytic history, Dr. Gay also examined the impact of Freudian ideas on German culture in Freud, Jews and Other Germans (1978). His last work was Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond (2007). A leading historian of the social history of ideas, Dr. Gay was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and received the National Book Award, Melchor Book Award, and Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, among other honors. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1987. Peter Gay died May 12, 2015, at the age of 91 at his home in Manhattan. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Charles P. Kindleberger | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | July 7, 2003 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Henry Rosovsky | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | November 11, 2022 | | | | | | |
Currently Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus, Henry Rosovsky has been affiliated with Harvard University since 1965, both as a professor and dean of arts and sciences (1973-84). Noted for his expertise in economics, particularly on the economic development of Japan, Dr. Rosovsky has also undertaken important writing on the role of universities and the importance of the liberal arts in education. He is the author of books such as Japanese Economic Growth (1973), Capital Formation in Japan, 1868-1940 (1981) and The University An Owner's Manual (1990). He has also served as the co-chair of the UNESCO World Bank Task Force on Higher Education and Society. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Dr. Rosovsky is the recipient of awards such as the Encyclopedia Brittanica's Achievement in Life Award and the DuBois Medal in African-American Studies. | |
| 4 | Name: | Prof. Arthur Schlesinger | | | Institution: | City University of New York | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | February 28, 2007 | | | | |
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