Robert W. Scribner
Robert William Scribner (born June 9, 1941 in Sydney , † January 29, 1998 in Arlington ) was an Australian historian .
Robert W. Scribner received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Sydney . The Ph.D. followed in 1970 with Geoffrey Dickens with a study on the Reformation Erfurt in Past & Present at the University of London . His first apprenticeship followed at the Polytechnic in Portsmouth . From 1979 to 1981 he taught at King's College London . Scribner then taught as a fellow at Clare College , where he was one of the founders of early modern research together with Patrick Collinson and Peter Burke . In 1996 he was appointed to the chair in the history of religion at Harvard University . His main focus was the German-speaking Reformation . For years he translated numerous sources on the peasant war in Germany into English for academic teaching . The source collection The German Peasants' War resulted from the work . A history in documents .
Fonts
Monographs
- with Gerhard Benecke: The German Peasant War 1525. New Viewpoints. George Allen & Unwin, London et al. 1979, ISBN 0-04-900031-4 .
- For the sake of simple folk. Popular propaganda for the German Reformation (= Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture. Vol. 2). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1981, ISBN 0-521-24192-8 .
- Religion and Culture in Germany 1400–1800 (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 175). Edited by Lyndal Roper . 2nd edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-35171-2 .
Editorships
- Images and iconoclasm in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen. Vol. 46). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-447-03037-2 .
literature
- Peter Blickle : Nekrolog Robert William Scribner 1941–1998. In: Historical magazine. Volume 281, 2005, pp. 547-549.
- Thomas A. Brady, Jr .: Robert William ("Bob") Scribner (1941-1998). In: Central European History. Vol. 31, No. 3, 1998, pp. 293-296 ( online )
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert W. Scribner in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scribner, Robert W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scribner, Robert William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1998 |
| Place of death | Arlington |