Rudolph Binion

Rudolph Binion (1927-2011) was an American historian. His areas of expertise were modern European intellectual and cultural history and psychohistory. Rudolph Binion lived in Paris for six years, where he obtained a diploma from the Institut d’études politiques and worked as a statistician for UNESCO. He received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and his doctorate in 1958. After teaching at Rutgers University, MIT, and Columbia University, Binion was appointed Professor of Modern European History at Brandeis University in 1967. In his best-known and most influential book-Hitler Among the Germans (1976)-Binion attempted to explain Adolf Hitler’s personality and political beliefs by means of psychoanalysis. After a long illness, Binion died in May 2011 at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. [Translated from his Wikipedia page.]