Gay, Peter, 1923-2015

LC control no.	n 50016333
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Gay, Peter, 1923-2015 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Gay, Peter Jack, 1923-2015 Fröhlich, Peter Joachim, 1923-2015 ゲイピーター, 1923-2015
Other standard no.	0000000121037361
Associated country	United States
Located	Havana (Cuba) Denver (Colo.)
Birth date	1923-06-20
Death date	2015-05-12
Place of birth	Berlin (Germany)
Place of death	Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activity	History Political science
Affiliation	Yale University Columbia University
Profession or occupation	Authors Editors Historians College teachers History teachers
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	The dilemma of democratic socialism, 1952. My German question, c1998: CIP t.p. (Peter Gay) data sheet (b. 6/20/23) pub. info. (b. in Berlin; Ph.D., Columbia Univ., NYC, 1951; taught at Columbia and Yale; Dir. of Ctr. for Scholars & Writers, N.Y. Public Lib.) New York times (online), viewed May 12, 2015 (Peter Gay; b. Peter Joachim Fröhlich, 1923, Berlin; emigrated with his family to Havana in 1939; gained entry into the United States in 1941 and settled in Denver; because Americans found his last name difficult to pronounce, he changed it to its English equivalent; taught political science at Columbia from 1947 to 1955, but after being passed over for promotion, joined the university's history department at the invitation of Richard Hofstadter; in 1969, joined the history faculty at Yale, where he taught until retiring in 1993; d. Tuesday [May 12, 2015], Manhattan, aged 91; German-born historian whose sense of intellectual adventure led him to write groundbreaking books on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle classes, Sigmund Freud, Weimar culture, and the cultural situation of Jews in Germany) ISNI database, searched March 27, 2024 (Peter Jack Gay)
Associated language	eng