NEW YORK (AP) β Carl E. Schorske, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and popular classroom lecturer whose “Fin-De-Siecle Vienna” is widely regarded as a classic work of intellectual scholarship, has died.
Schorske, who was 100, died Sunday at the Meadow Lakes senior facility in East Windsor, New Jersey, according to Martin Mbugua, a spokesman for Princeton University where the historian was a professor emeritus.
“Fin-de-Siecle Vienna,” published in 1980, is a broad and detailed survey of Austrian politics and culture at the end of the 19th century, a setting that profoundly influenced the 20th century. In 1981, the same year he won the Pulitzer, Schorske was part of the first group of “Genius Grant” recipients from the MacArthur Foundation. In 2007, he was presented Austria’s Victor Adler Prize for lifetime achievement.
