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Gertrude Himmelfarb was in 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. Her father was a glass manufacturer, her mother a homemaker. An older brother, Milton, was an essayist and director of research for the ...
31 de dic. de 2019 · Gertrude Himmelfarb (Screen capture: YouTube) NEW YORK (AP) — Gertrude Himmelfarb, the matriarch of one of the right’s most prominent families and a scholar of Victorian England who argued ...
When Gertrude Himmelfarb, AM’44, PhD’50, began her graduate studies in history at Chicago, she couldn’t have imagined the career ahead of her. The 90-year-old historian, who’s been called “the reigning authority on Victorian social thought,” has written 15 books, edited and contributed to many others, and collected more than a dozen honorary degrees.
9 de feb. de 2023 · 1973. Professor Gertrude Himmelfarb is a Professor Emerita at City University of New York. Himmelfarb began graduate work in history at the University of Chicago. Himmelfarb wrote her Master's thesis on Robespierre under the direction of well-known historian Louis Gottschalk and received her MA in 1944. Himmelfarb published her first book, an ...
10 de abr. de 2024 · Gertrude Himmelfarb was one of the foremost historians of Victorian life. She produced page-turning biographies of some of the age’s most intriguing and influential figures, including Lord Acton, Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot. She also produced social histories of the period and brought a Victorian sensibility to American politics as a leading conservative public ...
Gertrude Himmelfarb. National Humanities Medal. 2004. As one of the leading scholars of Victorian studies, Gertrude Himmelfarb has tried to dispel stereotypes about the Victorian world. "It's not quite a respectable word yet," she says. "It's now used as an epithet, as a derogatory or pejorative word meaning excessively puritanical, repressive ...
2 de ene. de 2020 · Gertrude Himmelfarb was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 8, 1922, to Max and Bertha (Lerner) Himmelfarb, Jews who had emigrated from Russia to the United States before World War I.
