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- catalog abstract ""Ernst Kantorowicz was a complex figure whose long incident-filled life seemed to embody many of the contradictions of the twentieth century. A Jew from a disputed area between Germany and Poland who fought on the German side in World War I, he first achieved academic success with Frederick II (1927), a work whose language, in Gabrielle Spiegel's words, "often came perilously close to that of the Nazi party" in its desire to see a reconstituted German nation once again dominant on the world stage. Forced to emigrate when the Nazis came to power, Kantorowicz later became embroiled in controversy when, at Berkeley during the McCarthy era, he refused to sign an oath of allegiance designed to identify Communist Party sympathizers. Resigning from Berkeley as a result of the controversy over the loyalty oath, Kantorowicz moved to the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, where he remained for the rest of his life and where he wrote his masterpiece, The King's Two Bodies." "Kantorowicz the historian, however, had no wish to see his own life become a subject of historical study. When he died in 1963, his will directed that all his personal papers be destroyed. Why had a historian so involved in history wished to erase himself from it? In Kantorowicz: Stories of a Historian, Alain Boureau confronts this question by writing a unique work which is as much a speculation on the nature of biography as it is a biographical study. In the absence of personal records, Boureau seeks to get at the interior life of this enigmatic individual through the recourse of "parallel lives"--Real-life figures and characters from novels of the time who were faced with similar crises and who shared aspects of upbringing, training, and circumstance." "This nontraditional biography, originally published in France in 1990, appears for the first time in English, translated by Stephen G. Nichols and Gabrielle M. Spiegel."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Histoires d'un historien Kantorowicz. English".
- catalog contributor b12104312.
- catalog coverage "Germany Politics and government 1918-1933.".
- catalog coverage "Germany Politics and government 1933-1945.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Ernst Kantorowicz was a complex figure whose long incident-filled life seemed to embody many of the contradictions of the twentieth century. A Jew from a disputed area between Germany and Poland who fought on the German side in World War I, he first achieved academic success with Frederick II (1927), a work whose language, in Gabrielle Spiegel's words, "often came perilously close to that of the Nazi party" in its desire to see a reconstituted German nation once again dominant on the world stage. Forced to emigrate when the Nazis came to power, Kantorowicz later became embroiled in controversy when, at Berkeley during the McCarthy era, he refused to sign an oath of allegiance designed to identify Communist Party sympathizers.".
- catalog description ""Kantorowicz the historian, however, had no wish to see his own life become a subject of historical study. When he died in 1963, his will directed that all his personal papers be destroyed. Why had a historian so involved in history wished to erase himself from it? In Kantorowicz: Stories of a Historian, Alain Boureau confronts this question by writing a unique work which is as much a speculation on the nature of biography as it is a biographical study. In the absence of personal records, Boureau seeks to get at the interior life of this enigmatic individual through the recourse of "parallel lives"--Real-life figures and characters from novels of the time who were faced with similar crises and who shared aspects of upbringing, training, and circumstance."".
- catalog description ""This nontraditional biography, originally published in France in 1990, appears for the first time in English, translated by Stephen G. Nichols and Gabrielle M. Spiegel."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Resigning from Berkeley as a result of the controversy over the loyalty oath, Kantorowicz moved to the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, where he remained for the rest of his life and where he wrote his masterpiece, The King's Two Bodies."".
- catalog extent "xxi, 112 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0801866235 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Parallax".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Germany Politics and government 1918-1933.".
- catalog spatial "Germany Politics and government 1933-1945.".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog subject "943/.007/2022 21".
- catalog subject "DD86.7.K3 B6813 2001".
- catalog subject "Historians Germany Biography.".
- catalog subject "Jews Germany Biography.".
- catalog subject "Kantorowicz, Ernst Hartwig, 1895-1963.".
- catalog title "Histoires d'un historien Kantorowicz. English".
- catalog title "Kantorowicz : stories of a historian / Alain Boureau ; translated by Stephen G. Nichols and Gabrielle M. Spiegel ; foreword by Martin Jay.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".