George L. Mosse was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 10, 1894. He was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Berlin before receiving his Ph.D. in history from Yale
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He taught at the Universities of Washington and Minnesota before joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1919. In 1933 he left for England where he joined the University of London as professor of modern European history and director of research in cultural geography until his retirement in 1960. In 1964 he returned to the United States and taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, until his death in 1968.
His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Presidential Medal for Merit from President Eisenhower, and a gold medal from Yale University.