Felix Gilbert

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 [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] . Gilbert's area of expertise was the Renaissance, especially the diplomatic history of the period [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] .

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.

Endnotes

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.