Anson Rabinbach
Anson G. Rabinbach | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 2, 1945 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | February 2, 2025 (aged 79) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar, historian |
| Title | Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University |
| Board member of | Co-editor, New German Critique |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | European Intellectual History |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Main interests | Germany, Austria, Fascism, Intellectual History, Critical Theory |
| Notable works | The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity (1990) |
Anson Gilbert Rabinbach (June 2, 1945 – February 2, 2025) was an American historian of modern Europe and the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. He is best known for his writings on labor, Nazi Germany, Austromarxism, and European thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1973 he co-founded the journal New German Critique, which he continued to co-edit.