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Gerald Freund
GERALD FREUND (1930-1997) was a veteran foundation administrator, first director of the MacArthur Foundation’s Prize Fellows Program, and author of Unholy Alliance (1957), about Russian-German rela...view moreGERALD FREUND (1930-1997) was a veteran foundation administrator, first director of the MacArthur Foundation’s Prize Fellows Program, and author of Unholy Alliance (1957), about Russian-German relations from 1917-1926, and Germany Between Two Worlds (1961).
Freund was born in Berlin, Germany on October 14, 1930, the son of Kurt and Annelise Freund (née Josephthal). The family emigrated to the U.S. in 1940, settling in New York, and Freund was naturalised in 1946. He received a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College in 1952 and a doctorate in modern European history from Oxford University in England in 1955. From 1969-1970 he taught at Haverford and served as an aide to Kingman Brewster Jr., the president of Yale, and as executive vice president of the Film Society of Lincoln Center from 1970-1971. He was dean of the humanities and arts at Hunter College from 1971-1980, and from 1960-1969 he was at the Rockefeller Foundation, serving as assistant director of social sciences and as associate director of humanities, social sciences and arts.
He was director of the Whiting Writers’ Awards, senior consultant to the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund and president of Private Funding Associates, a philanthropic advisory organization. His other work included setting up and administering the Rona Jaffe Awards and the Lillian Gish Prize in the arts. He also advised the McDowell Colony, and a fellowship there has been endowed in his name.
He died of cancer in Wilton, Connecticut on March 14, 1997, aged 66.
SIR JOHN WHEELER WHEELER-BENNETT (1902-1975) was a conservative English historian of German and diplomatic history. He lived in Germany between 1927-1934, where he witnessed the final years of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Nazi Germany, and served as an unofficial agent and advisor to the British government on international events. His interpretation of the role of the German Army influenced a number of British historians.view less
Books by Gerald Freund
Unholy Alliance: Russian-German Relations from the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to the Treaty of Berlin