Fritz Stern (1926–2016)
Auteur de The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present
A propos de l'auteur
Fritz Stern was born in the former German province of Silesia (now in Poland) on February 2, 1926 to a prominent family that had converted from Judaism to Christianity. The Sterns felt increasingly threatened by Hitler's reign and left for New York in 1938. He received an undergraduate and master's afficher plus degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught at Columbia University for more than 40 years, specializing in European history, before retiring in 1997. He wrote several books during his lifetime including The Politics of Cultural Despair, The Failure of Illiberalism, and Five Germanys I Have Known. He occasionally advised government officials including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on German reunification in the early 1990s and held government positions like being appointed a senior aide to Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, in 1993. He died May 18, 2016 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Fritz Stern
Politique et Désespoir. Les ressentiments contre la modernité dans l'Allemagne préhitlérienne (1961) 215 exemplaires
Grandeurs et défaillances de l'Allemagne du XXe siècle. Le cas exemplaire d'Albert Einstein (1999) — Auteur — 128 exemplaires
Des hommes peu ordinaires. Dietrich Bonhoeffer et Hans von Dohnanyi, résistants à Hitler dans l'Eglise et dans l'Etat (2013) — Auteur; Auteur — 104 exemplaires
The Failure of Illiberalism: Essays on the Political Culture of Modern Germany (1972) 33 exemplaires
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung / Fritz Stern: 1999 (1999) 2 exemplaires
Varieties of History. From Voltaire to the Present 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Stern, Fritz Richard
- Date de naissance
- 1926-02-02
- Date de décès
- 2016-05-18
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Allemagne (Naissance)
Etats-Unis (Naturalisation ∙ 1948) - Lieu de naissance
- Breslau, Basse-Silésie, Allemagne
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, Etats-Unis
- Lieux de résidence
- Breslau, Basse-Silésie, Allemagne
New York, New York, Etats-Unis - Études
- Columbia University (History ∙ PhD ∙ Thèse 'The Politics of Cultural Despair. A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology', 19 53)
Columbia University (History ∙ MA ∙ 1948) - Professions
- Professeur (Histoire)
Historien (Contemporain, WW2)
Conseiller politique - Relations
- Barzun, Jacques (Directeur de thèse)
Sifton, Elisabeth, (Epouse)
Bassett, Margaret, (Ex Epouse, divorced)
Niebuhr, Reinhold (Beau-père)
Haber, Fritz (Parrain)
Holbrooke, Richard, (Ami, 19 94) - Organisations
- Columbia University (Histoire contemporaine, Professeur-assistant , 19 53, Professeur associé, 19 57, Titulaire, 19 63 | 19 96)
Columbia University (Chancelier = Provost, 19 80 | 19 83)
Université Cornell (Professeur assistant, Histoire, 19 51 | 19 53)
Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, Paris (Professeur invité, 19 79)
Université d’Oxford (Professeur invité)
Université libre de Berlin (Professeur invité) (tout afficher 11)
Université d’Iéna (Professeur invité)
Académie des sciences de Berlin-Brandebourg
Académie américaine des arts et des sciences
Académie allemande pour la langue et la littérature
Société américaine de philosophie - Prix et distinctions
- Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels (1999)
Grand commandeur de l'ordre du Mérite de la République fédérale d'Allemagne (2006)
Université d’Oxford (Docteur honoris causa, 1985)
New School for Social Research, New York (Docteur honoris causa, 1985)
Université Columbia, New York (Docteur honoris causa, 1997)
Université de Breslau (Docteur honoris causa, 2002) (tout afficher 7)
Université d'Oldenburg, Allemagne ( (Docteur honoris causa, 2002)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Membres
- 1,492
- Popularité
- #17,224
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 72
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 1
The main themes of the book are how finance and politics became intertwined in those years, and very much through the persons of Bleichroeder and Bismarck; and the fall and re-arising of anti-Semitism during those years, and again how these two characters played such important roles in that process too. And of course these themes are coupled. The new anti-Semitism saw Jews as powerful; Bleichroeder was proof.
Stern transposes the literary matrix: the letters each belong to a moment in time, and many, I expect, pulled in strands from many facets of the situation of that moment. Stern largely dedicates a chapter to each facet, revisiting the same stretch of time in each chapter while isolating one strand or another. Probably the key chapter for the anti-Semitism chapter is the one on Rumania. In 1978 anti-Semitism was in sufficient retreat that a treaty could be forced on Rumania that required them to emancipate their Jews. But within a few years, Rumania had shirked this duty and was never held accountable.
Sad to say, this book seems more relevant today than when it was published. Various economic difficulties plagued the working class in the 1870s and 1880s; the old aristocracy could unite with the craftsmen and shopkeepers against the liberals and capitalists, under the banner of anti-Semitism. Of course Stern had no need to dwell on the parallels with the 1930s. I imagine he would have been surprised to see those passions reignited in the 2016 time frame.
I am not so familiar with Bismarck's chancellorship and all the events during those years. This book doesn't really tell the big story. Occasionally Stern will take a few paragraphs to sketch some piece of it, but mostly we just see the grand march from the point of view of a few players. Indeed, Stern reminds us several times that in the middle of events, the players don't have that hindsight that we have many decades later. Personally I like to learn about the big things from the perspective of the small things. Other readers may get frustrated. It's not a book for everyone! But the rich detail here is really a treasure if you don't mind getting lost in the details!… (plus d'informations)