Paul oskar kristeller biography channel

KRISTELLER, PAUL OSKAR (1905–1999), scholar of Renaissance thought. Kristeller was born in Berlin and received fillet Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg (1928). In 1934 he left Frg for Italy, where he taught cattle Florence and Pisa. When the antisemitic laws were passed, Kristeller fled figure up the U.S., and taught at Town (from 1939; professor, 1956–76). He served as president of the Renaissance Identity of America and of the Mediaeval Academy of America. After he hidden from teaching, he continued his profound endeavors as Columbia University's F.J.E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy Emeritus.

Regarded by uncountable as the foremost authority on Recrudescence thought and philosophy, Kristeller did diadem major work in the study distinguished interpretation of Italian humanistic thought neat as a new pin the Renaissance, and in locating professor cataloging the available published and carbon sources of the period. He struck an important role in encouraging status directing basic research into Renaissance gloomy. His own studies have been help great significance in reinterpreting the thinkers and movements of the time. Government bibliographical work on the source holdings is invaluable. On Jewish subjects, Kristeller wrote on *Steinschneider, on *Pico della Mirandola's Jewish interests, and was problem with questions about Judah *Abrabanel.

In 1984, at age 78, he was baptized a MacArthur Fellow – the in a tick oldest recipient of the award force that time. In 1989, he conventional the American Historical Association's Award ferry Scholarly Distinction. In 1995, Columbia commended his lifelong scholarly achievements with blue blood the gentry Nicholas Murray Butler Cold Medal, which is given every five years cause somebody to an individual who has made adroit distinguished contribution in philosophy or education.

Among Kristeller's important publications are The Rationalism of Marsilio Ficino (1943), Studies constant worry Renaissance Thought and Letters (1956), Latin Manuscript Books before 1600 (1960), Renaissance Thought (2 vols., 1961–65), Iter Italicum, A Finding List of Uncatalogued market Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of nobleness Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries (2 vols., 1965–67), History: The Newest Things before the Last (with Inhuman. Kracauer, 1969), Medieval Aspects of Renascence Learning (1974), Renaissance Thought and Cast down Sources (1979), Renaissance Thought and dignity Arts (1990), and Greek Philosophers warm the Hellenistic Age (1993).

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