Carl schorske biography

          Carl Emil Schorske, known professionally as Carl E. Schorske, was an American cultural historian and professor at Princeton University.

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          Carl Emil Schorske

          American historian

          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 Nonfiction 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.

          In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siécle Vienna--draws together a series of essays.

          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 in 1950.[2] 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 sc