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Peter Gay, who wrote more than 25 books over the course of his career, including seminal works about The Enlightenment, Sigmund Freud, Mozart, and Weimar Culture, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 91.
Gay was the Sterling Professor Emeritus History at Yale University, where he taught for 24 years before retiring in 1993. He won a National Book Award for 1966’s The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism, a two-volume study on the subject. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, Gay was a professor of history at Columbia University from 1962 to 1969; he earned both a masters degree (1947) and doctorate (1951) in political science from Columbia.
