Carl Emil Schorske

Carl Emil Schorske (March 15, 1915 – September 2015) was an American cultural historian and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (1980), which remains highly 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. He turned 100 in March 2015.
==Biography==
Born in New York City, Schorske received his B.A. from Columbia in 1936, and a Ph.D. from Harvard. 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 schism of the Social Democratic Party of Germany into a reformist/constitutionalist Right faction and a revolutionary oppositionist Left faction during the years 1905-1917.
Following his war-time service, Schorske taught at Wesleyan University (1946-1960), the University of California at Berkeley (1960–69), and Princeton University (1969 until his retirement in 1980), where he was Dayton-Stockton Professor of History."Carl E(mil) Schorske." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 Sept. 2013. Professor Schorske was named by Time Magazine as one of the nation's ten top academic leaders. In 1987 he delivered the Charles Homer Haskins Price Lecture.http://www.acls.org/uploadedFiles/Publications/OP/Haskins/1987_CarlSchorske.pdf In 1998 Schorske published Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism (Princeton University Press), a collection of essays on Viennese and general history.Review.
==Decorations and awards==
In 2004 Schorske received the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Association (Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft).Ludwig Wittgenstein-Preis; Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft. He is a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. On 25 April 2012, Schorske was made an honorary citizen of Vienna during a ceremony attended by his wife Elizabeth and Mayor of Vienna, Dr Michael Häupl. In 1981 he was a MacArthur Fellow.
* 1985: City of Vienna Prize for Journalism
* 1996: Grand Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
* 2007: Victor-Eagle State Prize for History of social movements
* Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
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