Seymour Drescher

1934

**Seymour J. Drescher** (1934-) Seymour Drescher, born 1934 in Bronx, New York is an American historian and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and Slavery. Seymour's parents Sydney (1907-1999) and Ava (1909-1999), of Polish Jewish background where both born after the turn of the last century, one from Galicia and one from Russian Poland before the 1914 war. They married in 1930 but had to flee Germany in August 1939 and came to lived in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh with their families for the remainder of their lives. Seymour spent the first twenty-one years of his life in the 'Bronx', attended the public school Bronx High School of Science (1951), and then City College on Manhattan Island. >"*I had a couple fabulous professors including a German Czech professor, Hans Kohn*". Graduating with his Bachelor of Arts in 1955 in which he majored in history, he was leaving his hometown for the first time to do his Masters at University Wisconsin, when he was fortunate enough to meet a young woman, Ruth, who was also graduating. Within a month they had gotten engaged, and since he'd gotten a scholarship into Madison he invited her to come alone - as his wife. >"*At Madison I wanted to work with professor Merle Curti who was probably the most famous history teacher at the time, [he was] into American intellectual history*". This was shortly before the Drescher's moved to New York in August 1955 when Curti was on a fellowship year a

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