American historian
Carl Emil Schorske
Born (1915-03-15 ) March 15, 1915Died September 13, 2015(2015-09-13) (aged 100) Other names Charles E. Schorske Education Columbia Alma mater Harvard Awards Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, MacArthur fellow, honorary citizen of Vienna Scientific career Fields Cultural history Author Institutions Princeton University
Carl Emil Schorske (March 15, 1915 – September 13, 2015), known professionally as Carl E. Schorske , was an American cultural historian and professor at Princeton University . In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture [1] (1980), which remains significant to modern European intellectual history. He was a recipient of the first year of MacArthur Fellows Program awards in 1981 and made an honorary citizen of Vienna in 2012.
Biography
Born in the Bronx , New York City , to Theodore Schorske and Gertrude Goldsmith, Schorske received his B.A. from Columbia in 1936 and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He served in the Office of Strategic Services , the precursor to the CIA, during World War II, as chief of political intelligence for Western Europe. His first book, German Social Democracy , published by Harvard University Press in 1955, describes the schism of the Social Democratic Party of Germany into a reformist/constitutionalist right faction and a revolutionary oppositionist left faction during the years 1905–1917.
Following his war-time service, Schorske taught at Wesleyan University (1946–1960), the University of California at Berkeley (1960–1969), and Princeton University (1969 until his retirement in 1980), where he was Dayton-Stockton Professor of History.[2] Professor Schorske was named by Time magazine as one of the nation's ten top academic leaders.[3] In 1987 he delivered the Charles Homer Haskins Lecture.[4] In 1998 Schorske published Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism (Princeton University Press ), a collection of essays on Viennese and general history.[5] He turned 100 in March 2015[6] and died in September at a retirement community in Hightstown, New Jersey .[7] [8] [9]
Decorations and awards
In 2004 Schorske received the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Association (Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft ).[10] He was a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . On 25 April 2012 Schorske was made an honorary citizen of Vienna during a ceremony attended by his wife, Elizabeth Rorke, his granddaughter, Carina del Valle Schorske, and the mayor of Vienna, Dr Michael Häupl . In 1981 he was a MacArthur Fellow .
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