title: Leonard Krieger
text: # Leonard Krieger
  
  Leonard Krieger (28 August 1918 – 12 October 1990) was an American historian who paid particular attention to Modern Europe, especially Germany. He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism. He has been called "the most intellectual historian in the United States during the Cold War". He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
  
  Krieger was born in Newark, New Jersey. His brother was the literary theorist Murray Krieger. He died of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) in 1990.
  
  ## Works
  
  * The German Idea of Freedom (1957)
  * The Politics of Discretion (1965)
  * "Culture, Cataclysm, and Contingency," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 40, No. 4, December 1968
  * Kings and Philosophers 1689-1789 (1970)
  * "The Historical Hannah Arendt," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 48, No. 4, December 1976
  * Ranke: The Meaning of History (1977)
  * Time's Reasons (1989)
  * Ideas and Events: Professing History (1992)
  