Carl Emil Schorske

Professor Carl Emil Schorske was the Dayton-Stockton Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University and an authority on the intellectual and cultural history of 19th- and 20th- century Europe. He passed away at the age of 100 years old in September, 2015. Professor Schorske gained international acclaim for his extraordinary blending of art history, European political and cultural life, international history, urban development, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and the emergence of the 20th-century culture. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1981 for "Fin-de-Siécle Vienna: Politics and Culture," a collection of seven essays that paint a compelling picture of Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. Professor Schorske joined the Princeton faculty in 1969 after teaching at the University of California-Berkeley and Wesleyan University. At Princeton, he established the Program in European Cultural Studies, captivated undergraduates with engrossing lectures and blazed new paths of scholarship still being explored today. He transferred to emeritus status in 1980.