Biography
Felix Gilbert 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, and part of the Mendelssohn Bartholdy clan. In the latter half of the 1920s, Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of Berlin. Gilbert's area of expertise was the Renaissance, especially the diplomatic history of the period He was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1962 to 1975, and maintained an active involvement as an emeritus faculty member until his death in 1991. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963 and the American Philosophical Society in 1969.
Works
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
History
The End of the European Era, 1890 to the Present
Guicciardini, Machiavelli : und die geschichtsschreibung der italienischen renaissance
Guicciardini, Machiavelli : und die geschichtsschreibung der italienischen renaissance
1991
Lehrjahre im alten Europa
Lehrjahre im alten Europa
1989
European Past
European Past
1988
Politische Schriften
Politische Schriften
1933
To the Farewell Address
To the Farewell Address
Progress of Society in Europe
Progress of Society in Europe
Johann Gustav Droysen und Die Preussisch-Deutsche Frage
Johann Gustav Droysen und Die Preussisch-Deutsche Frage
Machiavelli and Guicciardini
Machiavelli and Guicciardini
To the Farewell Address Ideas of Early A
To the Farewell Address Ideas of Early A
End of European Era 5e Pa W/Re
End of European Era 5e Pa W/Re
Hitler Directs His War; The Secret Records of His Daily Military Conferences
Hitler Directs His War; The Secret Records of His Daily Military Conferences
Machiavelli and Guicciardini - Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence
Machiavelli and Guicciardini - Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence
Genios de la Estrategia Militar, Volumen X
Genios de la Estrategia Militar, Volumen X
Hitler Directs his War
Hitler Directs his War