Jacob-Peter Mayer (1903–1992) was a German-born editor of the works of

Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (; 29 July 180516 April 1859), colloquially known as Tocqueville (), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his works ...

and founder of the Tocqueville Research Centre at the

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where he was Professor Emeritus. He was considered 'the foremost authority on the great French sociologist'. Mayer was the editor of the Gallimard edition of de Tocqueville's ''Oeuvres Complètes'' (27 volumes, 1951–83), as well as the author of books on de Tocqueville,

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and

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. In 1943 Routledge, Kegan Paul in London published his ''Political Thought in France From the Revolution to the Fifth Republic.'' The book went into a third revised edition in 1961. This was followed by ''Max Weber and German Politics '' (Routledge, London 1944.) In 1946 he published ''Sociology of Film: Studies and Documents'' (Faber, London). In the 1960s and 1970s he edited the book series European Political Thought for

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, New York In his youth he was a member of the

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and active in the

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of the 1930s. Mayer fled to England with his wife Lola (née Grusemann) in 1936, eventually settling in Stoke Poges near London. During the war he worked on German broadcasts for the Ministry of Economic Warfare. He became a British citizen in 1950.Letter from F.A. Newsam (Nationality Division, Home Office, Whitehall, London) to J.P. Mayer, 10 August 1950, The J.P. Mayer Papers, Special Collections, University of St Andrews Library.

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* Translation of Thomas Hobbes'

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: Leviathan - oder von Materie, Form und Gewalt des kirchlichen und bürgerlichen Staates, 1936 * Political Thought: The European Tradition. In co-Operation with R. H. S. Crossman, P. Kecskemeti, E. Kohn-Bramstedt, C. J. S. Sprigge. With an Introduction by R. H. Tawney. Dent, 1939 * Sociology of Film: Studies and Documents. Faber 1946 * Max Weber and German politics: a study in political sociology. Faber 1956.

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