Leonard Krieger

{{short description|American historian}}

Leonard Krieger (28 August 1918 – 12 October 1990)[https://books.google.com/books?id=KFYQDMpa4S4C&q=Leonard+Krieger+(28+August+1918-12+October+1990) Profile of Leonard Krieger]{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3181958|jstor=3181958|title=Leonard Krieger (28 August 1918-12 October 1990)|last1=Schorske|first1=Carl E.|journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society|year=1999|volume=143|issue=3|pages=457–458}} 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".Aubrey Neal, How Skeptics Do Ethics: A Brief History of the Late Modern Linguistic Turn (2007), p. 186. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.{{Cite web |title=Leonard Krieger |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/leonard-krieger |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Leonard+Krieger&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}

Krieger was born in Newark, New Jersey.Staff. [https://library.ias.edu/files/pdfs/hs/cos.pdf#page=248 A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS: The Institute for Advanced Study Faculty and Members 1930-1980], p. 248. Institute for Advanced Study, 1980. Accessed November 22, 2015. "Krieger, Leonard 63s, 69-70 HS, Modern Europe Born 1918 Newark, NJ." His brother was the literary theorist Murray Krieger. He died of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) in 1990.