John W. O'Malley

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John W. O'Malley (born June 11, 1927 in Tiltonsville , Ohio ) is an American historian .

John W. O'Malley received his PhD from Harvard University in 1965 . He taught for several years at the University of Detroit and for nearly three decades as Distinguished Professor of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology , Cambridge. Most recently he was professor of theology at Georgetown University . John W. O'Malley - Roman Catholic priest and Jesuit - was President of the Renaissance Society of America (1998-2000) and the American Catholic Historical Association .

His main research interests are the religious culture of early modern Europe, especially Italy, as well as the Second Vatican Council and the history of the 16th century. He is considered the doyen of the historiography of the Jesuit order and is one of the leading experts on the complex of topics of early modern Catholicism . He has the merit of having freed Jesuit research from the dusty, Rome-centered, Catholic specialization. His account The First Jesuits , published in 1993, bundled the first approaches to reassessing the Jesuit order. The presentation has been translated into twelve languages. In the same year collected essays on the relationship between religion and culture in the 16th century were published. In 2004 an overview of the culture and history of ideas of the early modern period followed (The Four Cultures of the West) . In 2014 he published a short history of the Jesuit order. His book Trent: What Happened at the Council , published in 2013, is an introduction to the history of the Council - a work that was previously missing in English. In 2016 his story of relations between the Jesuit order and the Popes followed. Selected essays by O'Malley appear in the first volume of the new series Jesuit Studies by Brill .

O'Malley is a widely honored scientist for his research. He was awarded the 1993 Jacques Barzun Prize of the American Philosophical Society for his portrayal of the Jesuits. In 1996 he was awarded the Philip Schaff Prize by the American Society of Church History. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected him a member in 1995, the American Philosophical Society in 1997 and the Accademia di San Carlo in 2001. He was awarded the Johannes Tassel Medal by the Catholic University of America . His book Trent: What Happened at the Council was awarded the John Gilmary Shea Prize in 2014. O'Malley was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome , the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies . Visiting professorships have taken him to Harvard University, the University of Michigan , Boston College , Fordham University and Oxford University . He has received several honorary doctorates from Marquette University , St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, and Sacred Heart University . In 2002, his life's work was awarded the Society for Italian Historical Studies Prize. In 2005 the Renaissance Society of America presented him with the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award .

Fonts

  • Saints or Devils Incarnate? Studies in Jesuit History (= Jesuit Studies. Vol. 1). Brill, Leiden et al. 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-25737-5 .
  • The Jesuits. A History from Ignatius to the Present. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md. Et al. 2014, ISBN 978-1-4422-3475-8 .
  • Four Cultures of the West. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2004, ISBN 0-674-01498-7 .
  • Trent and All That. Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. et al. 2000, ISBN 0-674-00087-0 .
  • Religious Culture in the Sixteenth Century. Preaching, Rhetoric, Spirituality and Reform (= Variorum Collected Studies Series. Vol. 404). Variorum, Aldershot 1993, ISBN 0-86078-369-3 .
  • The First Jesuits. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1993, ISBN 0-674-30312-1 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Markus Friedrich in: Journal for Historical Research . Volume 44, 2017, p. 700 f.
  2. ↑ See the review by Markus Friedrich in: Journal for Historical Research. Volume 43, 2016, p. 153 f. ( online )
  3. ↑ See the review by Arne Karsten in: Historische Zeitschrift. Volume 298, 2014, p. 795 f.
  4. ↑ List of winners of the Jacques Barzun Prize
  5. ^ Announcement from Marquette University
  6. ^ Announcement from the University of Toronto
  7. ↑ https://www.sacredheart.edu/aboutshu/news/newsstories/2018/december/academic-convocation-honoring-rev-john-w-omalley-sj.html
  8. ↑ List of winners The Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement
personal data
SURNAME O'Malley, John W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiltonsville , Ohio