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Title: Felix Gilbert papers
Date (inclusive): 1870-1991
Collection Number: 93058
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
73 manuscript boxes
(30.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, research material, and conference papers, relating to historiography, and to
various aspects of the political, cultural, intellectual, diplomatic and military history of Europe, and especially of Italy
and Germany, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
Creator:
Gilbert, Felix, 1905-1991
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1993.
[Identification of item], Felix Gilbert papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Felix Gilbert (1905 – 1991) was a German-born American historian, educator, and author who wrote on Renaissance Italy, 18th-century
North America and Europe of the last century of early modern and modern Europe.
Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of Berlin and was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study
at Princeton University. His area of expertise was the Renaissance, especially the diplomatic history of the period. Dr. Gilbert
wrote, edited, or co-edited more than a dozen scholarly books. He was a visiting professor at leading American universities
and was awarded many honorary doctorates. One of Gilbert's books,
To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy, received a Bancroft Prize in 1962.
The main reading room of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. is named in his honor.
Scope and Content of Collection
These papers reflect the writings and research interests of Felix Gilbert, a historian, writer, and professor in emigration
and consist of correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, research material, and conference papers, relating to historiography,
and to various aspects of the political, cultural, intellectual, diplomatic and military history of Europe, and especially
of Italy and Germany, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Europe -- History
Germany -- History
History -- Philosophy
Europe -- Civilization
Europe -- Intellectual life
Historiography
History, Modern
Military history
Historiography -- United States
Italy -- History