Anson Rabinbach

Anson G. Rabinbach
Born(1945-06-02)June 2, 1945
DiedFebruary 2, 2025(2025-02-02) (aged 79)
Rome, Italy
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Scholar, historian
TitlePhilip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University
Board member ofCo-editor, New German Critique
Academic background
EducationPh.D.
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-disciplineEuropean Intellectual History
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Main interestsGermany, Austria, Fascism, Intellectual History, Critical Theory
Notable worksThe 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.