Leonard Krieger (28 August 1918 – 12 October 1990)[1][2] was an American historian who paid particular attention to Modern Europe, especially Germany.
He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism.
He has been called "the most intellectual historian in the United States during the Cold War".
[6] His brother was the literary theorist Murray Krieger.
He died of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) in 1990.