Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Fritz Stern
Born: February 2, 1926
Died: May 18, 2016 (aged 90)
Bio: Fritz Richard Stern was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography. He was a University Professor Emeritus and a provost at New York's Columbia University.
Known for:
- Five Germanys I Have Known (2006)
- The politics of cultural despair (1961)
- Gold and Iron (1977)