Background
Brown, Peter David Gilson was born on October 18, 1943 in Alton, Illinois, United States. Son of Weir Messick and Vivian Virginia (Bauer) Brown.
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This is the first book to critically examine the life and literature of Oskar Panizza (1853-1921), the most audacious and irreverent of the Munich «Moderns» associated with Michael Georg Conrad in the 1890's. Although this psychiatrist from Bad Kissingen wrote volumes of poetry, fiction and polemics, Panizza is best known for his play Das Liebeskonzil (1894). His scandalous «heavenly tragedy» depicts the origin of syphilis as the vengeance of an impotent, yet vindictive, God, His retribution for the sexual excesses practiced at the Vatican Court of Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI (1495). Panizza's subsequent sentence to one year in prison on 93 counts of blasphemy sparked a major public debate about religion, literary freedom and Wilhelminian censorship, in which Theodor Fontane, Detlev von Liliencron, Thoman Mann, Kurt Tucholsky and Frank Wedekind, among others, participated.
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Brown, Peter David Gilson was born on October 18, 1943 in Alton, Illinois, United States. Son of Weir Messick and Vivian Virginia (Bauer) Brown.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Columbia College, 1964; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1971.
Instructor of German Columbia University, New York City, 1967-1971, Barnard College, New York City, 1968-1971. Assistant professor German State University of New York, New Paltz, 1971-1974, associate professor German, 1974-1986, professor German, 1986—1999, distinguished service professor German, since 1999. Director State University of New York Academy Summer Program, Hamburg/Stade, Federal Republic Germany, 1974-1998.
Member editorial advisory board Peter Lang Public, New York City, since 1986. Member United University Professions, executive board member 2008-2010, vice president academics, New Paltz chapter, since 2005.
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Chairman Mid-Hudson Nuclear Opponents, New Paltz, New York, 1974-1980. Legislation coordinator Safe Energy Coalition of New York State, Albany, 1974-1975. Board directors Environmental Planning Lobby, Albany, 1976-1977, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1981-1983.
Member American Association of Teachers of German, Modern Language Association of America.
Married Elaine Greenblatt, September 10, 1966 (divorced August 1970). 1 child, Stephanie; married Susan Roberta Jensen, September 11, 1970 (divorced March 1992). 1 child, Andrew J.B.