Felix Gilbert

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Felix Gilbert (May 21, 1905-February 14, 1991) was a German-born American historian of early modern and modern Europe. Gilbert was born in Baden-Baden, Germany to a middle class Jewish family. In the later half of the 1920s, Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of Berlin^[1]. Gilbert's area of expertise was the Renaissance, especially the diplomatic history of the period^[2].

[edit] Work

• Johann Gustav Droysen und die preussisch-deutsche Frage, diss., Berlin 1931.
• Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler, (co-edited with Edward M. Earle and Gordon A. Craig) Princeton, N.J. 1943; New York 1966, 1971.
• "Bernardo Rucellai and the Orti Oricellari: A Study on the Origin of Modern Political Thought". In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Volume 12, 1949, p. 101-131.
• The Diplomats, 1919-1939, (co-edited with Gordon A. Craig), Princeton, N.J. 1954; New York 1963.
• To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy, Princeton, N.J. 1961.
• Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence, Princeton, N.J. 1965.
• History: Choice and Commitment, Cambridge, Mass. 1977.
• The Pope, His Banker, and Venice, Cambridge, Mass. 1981.
• A European Past: Memoirs, 1905-1945, 1988.
• History: Politics or Culture? Reflections on Ranke and Buckhardt, 1990.

[edit] Endnotes

1. ^ Thompson, Bruce "Gilbert, Felix" pages 465-466 from The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, Volume 1, edited by Kelly Boyd, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishing, 1999 page 111
2. ^ Thompson, Bruce "Gilbert, Felix" pages 465-466 from The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, Volume 1, edited by Kelly Boyd, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishing, 1999 page 465

[edit] References

• Craig, Gordon "Insight and Energy: Reflections on the Work of Felix Gilbert" in Felix Gilbert as Scholar and Teacher edited by Hartmut Lehmann, Washington D.C., German Historical Institute,Occasionanal Paper,#6,1992.
• Thompson,Bruce "Gilbert, Felix" pages 465-466 from The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, Volume 1, edited by Kelly Boyd, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishing, 1999.