Carl E. Schorske (born March 15, 1915 in New York City) is an American cultural historian and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The City of New York Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture^[1] (1980), which remains highly significant to modern European intellectual history. The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Politics and Culture, written by Carl E He was a recipient of one of the first-ever MacArthur Foundation "genius awards" – winning the top prize with fellow author Robert Penn Warren.

In 1998 Schorske published Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism (Princeton University Press), a collection of essays on Viennese and general history. The Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. ^[2] In 2004 he was honoured with the Ludwig Wittgenstein-Preis of the Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft. ^[3] He is a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The Austrian Academy of Sciences ("Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften" is a legal entity under the special protection of the Federal Republic of Austria

Schorske received his B. A. from Columbia in 1936, and a Ph. History Columbia College was founded as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of England in the D. from Harvard. He served in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, during World War II, as chief of political intelligence for Western Europe. The Office of Strategic Services ( OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. His first book, German Social Democracy, published by Harvard University Press, charts the rise of totalitarian and socialist-revolutionary political forces in Germany in the period following World War I.

Following his war-time service, Schorske taught at Wesleyan University (in the 1950's), the University of California at Berkeley (in the 1960's), and Princeton University (in the 1970's until his retirement in the early 1980's), where he was Dayton-Stockton Professor of History. Professor Schorske was named by Time Magazine as one of the nation's ten top academic leaders.

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