Background
Krieger, Leonard was born on August 28, 1918 in Newark. Son of Isidore and Jennie (Glinn) Krieger.
( The one hundred years that preceded the French Revoluti...)
The one hundred years that preceded the French Revolution witnessed the rise of kings to unmatched power and influence in European affairs. These years also encompassed the birth, maturation, and waning of the Enlightenment. Leonard Krieger shows how the monarchical tradition and the new intellectual developments were reflected in the latter half of the period during the rule of "philosopher kings," the enlightened absolutists. He analyses, too, the origins of a movement toward representative government and the stirrings of political and social revolt that would bring the period to an abrupt end.
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Krieger, Leonard was born on August 28, 1918 in Newark. Son of Isidore and Jennie (Glinn) Krieger.
Bachelor, Rutgers University, 1938; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1942; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1949.
Member of faculty, Yale University, New Haven, 1946-1962;
professor of history, Yale University, New Haven, 1961-1962;
visiting lecturer, Columbia University, New York City, 1960-1961;
professor, Columbia University, New York City, 1969-1972;
University professor of history, University of Chicago, 1962-1969, 72-90. Visiting lecturer Northwestern University, 1950, Brandeis U., 1958. Visiting professor Stanford University, summer 1968, Johns Hopkins University, 1971-1972.
Chairman international conference travel-grant committee Social Science Research Council, 1961-1963. Member book prizecom. Phi Beta Kappa, 1960-1961, Ralph Waldo Emerson prize committee, 1982.
Associate Princeton Council Hamanities for Ford Humanities Project, 1959-1964. Fellow Center Advanced Study Behavioral Science, 1956-1957. Member Institute for Advanced Study, 1963, 69-70.
( The one hundred years that preceded the French Revoluti...)
("the acquaintanceship with men and women who had universa...)
He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism.
Member council Yale University, from 1975, chairman visiting committee graduate school, from 1975. 1st lieutenant Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member American History Association (chairman program committee 1960, executive committee modern history section 1968-1971, chairman 1976, speaker 1979), American Academy Arts and Sciences (council 1975-1979, executive board from 1977), American Philosophical Society, American Society Political and Legal Philosophy.
Married Esther J. Smith, August 13, 1949. Children: Alan Davis, David Jonathan, Nathaniel Richard.