Carl E. Schorske

Carl E. Schorske (1915-2015) was an American cultural historian renowned for his work on modern European intellectual history, particularly fin-de-siècle Vienna. His most notable book, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (1980), won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1981, and he was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship that same year, along with numerous Austrian honors including honorary citizenship of Vienna in 2012.