Felix Gilbert

Felix Gilbert (May 21, 1905 – February 14, 1991) was a German-born American historian of early modern and modern Europe.

Gilbert was born in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a middle-class Jewish family, and part of the Mendelssohn Bartholdy clan.

In the latter half of the 1920s, Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of Berlin.

[1] Gilbert's area of expertise was the Renaissance, especially the diplomatic history of the period[2] He was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1962 to 1975, and maintained an active involvement as an emeritus faculty member until his death in 1991.

[3][4] The main reading room of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. is named in his honor.