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Gerda Lerner

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Austrian-American women's history scholar (1920-2013)

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Gerda Hedwig Lerner was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1980 to 1981.

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2012Käthe Leichter Prize
2008honorary doctor of Harvard University
2006Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book
2006honorary doctorate from Columbia University
2002Bruce Catton Prize
1980Guggenheim Fellowship
honorary doctor of the University of Vienna
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
honorary doctor of Brandeis University

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Gerda Hedwig Lerner was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1980 to 1981. In 1980, she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught until retiring in 1991.

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Lived 1920 to 2013 · aged 92
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