Quote of the day
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system
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)







