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Felix Gilbert (May 21 1905 – February 14 1991) was a German-born American historian of early modern and modern Europe. Gilbert was born in Baden-Baden Germany to a middle-class Jewish family and part of the Mendelssohn Bartholdy clan. In the latter half of the 1920s Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of Berlin. Gilbert’s area of expertise was the Renaissance especially the diplomatic history of the period.