# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-gay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:13:25.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-gay"
name: "Peter Gay"
slug: "peter-gay"
description: "Peter Joachim Gay was a German-American historian, educator, and author. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers (1997–2003). He received the American Historical Association's (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004. He authored over 25 books, including The Enlightenment: An Interpretation ; Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968); and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988)."
tagline: "German-American historian and author (1923–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/08/Peter_Gay_2007.jpg/330px-Peter_Gay_2007.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-06-20"
deathDate: "2015-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.542372881355932
  historical:           21.75061866666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1542444/"
    handle:    "nm1542444"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump