Paul Kristeller
Paul Kristeller · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Leading historian of Renaissance philosophy
1905, Berlin, Germany — 1999, New York City, United States
Germany · Italy · United States
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Paul Oskar Kristeller was one of the twentieth century's foremost historians of Renaissance humanism and philosophy, best known for his catalogue of thousands of uncatalogued manuscripts, the 'Iter Italicum'. Born into a German-Jewish family, he was dismissed under the Nazi racial laws and emigrated, teaching for decades at Columbia University. He was Jewish.
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Leading historian of Renaissance philosophy
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