{{Short description|American historian (1933–2012)}} '''Daniel E. Gasman''' (1933 – 19 December 2012)<ref>{{cite news | url=http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156738 | title=A prominent historian of science dies and no one takes notice| year= 2012 | publisher = History News Network| first=Mehler | last=Barry | accessdate =2015-01-03}}</ref> was an American historian at John Jay College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York.<ref name="CV">{{cite news | url=http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Gasman-cv.pdf | title=Curriculum Vitae | year=2013 | first=Daniel | last=Gasman | accessdate=2013-10-17 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014181636/http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Gasman-cv.pdf | archivedate=2013-10-14 }}</ref> He earned his PhD from University of Chicago in modern intellectual history.<ref name="CV"/> His most famous book is ''The Scientific Origins of National Socialism'',<ref>For example, see Simon Conway Morris, ''Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe'' (Cambridge: CUP, 2003) or GJ Stein, "Biological science and the roots of Nazism," American Scientist, Vol. 76, No. 1 1988.</ref> which has been both praised<ref>Robert Herzstein, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1877632 The Scientific Origins of National Socialism by Daniel Gasman]", The Journal of Modern History Vol. 45, No. 1 (Mar., 1973), pp. 145-147</ref><ref>C. A. Culotta, "The Scientific Origins of National Socialism. Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League by Daniel Gasman", Isis, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Dec., 1972), pp. 587-588 </ref><ref>Ralph H. Bowen, "The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League by Daniel Gasman," American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Jun., 1973), pp. 711-712</ref> and criticized<ref>Richards, Robert J.; [http://home.uchicago.edu/rjr6/articles/Haeckel--antiSemitism.pdf "Ernst Haeckel's Alleged Anti-Semitism and Contributions to Nazi Biology"]</ref> by scholars. His second book, ''Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology'', has been reviewed in journals.<ref>Barry Mehler, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 207-209</ref><ref>Paul Weindling, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Mar., 2002), pp. 117-118</ref><ref>Roger Griffin, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," The English Historical Review, Vol. 116, No. 467 (Jun., 2001), pp. 683-685</ref><ref>Alexander De Grand, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," American Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 3 (Jun., 2000), pp. 883-884 </ref>
==Books== *''The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League'' (London and New York: Macdonald and American Elsevier, 1971) {{ISBN|0444196641}} *''Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology'' (New York: Peter Lang: 1998) {{ISBN|0820441082}}
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20131014181636/http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Gasman-cv.pdf Daniel Gasman CV] *[http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-06-10/#feature From Haeckel to Hitler: The Anatomy of a Controversy] *http://www.ferris.edu/isar/academic-controversies/gasman.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105192854/http://www.ferris.edu/isar/academic-controversies/gasman.htm |date=2013-11-05 }}
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