Steven Ozment

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Steven Edgar Ozment (born February 21, 1939 in McComb , Mississippi ; † December 12, 2019 in Rye , New Hampshire ) was an American historian who worked in particular on the topics of Germany and the Reformation .

The McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University was a father of five and lived in Newburyport , Massachusetts with his wife Susan Schweizer, a manager at JP Morgan Chase .

Ozment taught at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , at Yale , Stanford and Harvard .

He has written ten books that have been translated into many languages. His Age of Reform, 1250–1550 (1980) won the Schaff History Prize (1981) and was nominated for the National Book Award in 1981; five books were selected by the History Book Club . In 1977 Ozment received a Guggenheim scholarship .

Most recently he studied Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Works

  • Homo spiritualis. A comparative study of the anthropology of Johannes Tauler , Jean Gerson and Martin Luther (1509-16) in the context of their theological thought . EJ Brill, Leiden 1969.
  • Ed .: Jean Gerson: Selections from A Deo exivit, Contra curiositatem studentium and De mystica theologia speculative . EJ Brill, Leiden 1969.
  • Ed .: The Reformation in Medieval Perspective . Quadrangle Books, Chicago 1971.
  • Mysticism and Dissent. Religious Ideology and Social Protest in the Sixteenth Century . Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1973.
  • The Reformation in the Cities. The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland . Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1975; 1977.
  • Co-author: The Western Heritage . MacMillan, New York, NY 1979; 1983; 1986; 1990; 1994; 1997; 2000; 2003.
  • The Age of Reform, 1250-1550. An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe . Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1980; 1981.
  • Ed .: Reformation Europe. A Guide to Research . Center for Reformation Research, St. Louis, MO 1982.
  • When Fathers Ruled. Family Life in Reformation Europe . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1983; 1985.
  • Co-author: The Heritage of World Civilizations . MacMillan, New York, NY 1986; 1989; 1993; 1996; 1999; 2001; 2004.
  • Magdalena and Balthasar. An Intimate Portrait of Life in 16th Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wife . Simon & Schuster, New York, NY 1986; Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1989.
  • Ed .: Religion and Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation . Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Kirksville, MO 1989.
  • Ed. And translator: Three Behaim Boys. Growing Up in Early Modern Germany. A Chronicle of Their Lives . Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1990.
  • Protestants. The Birth Of a Revolution . Doubleday, New York, NY 1993; 1994; HarperCollins, London 1993.
  • The Mayor's Daughter. Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town . St. Martin's Press, New York, NY 1996; HarperCollins, New York, NY 1997.
  • Flesh and Spirit. A Study of Private Life in Early Modern Germany . Viking / Penguin, New York, NY 1999; 2001.
  • Ancestors. The Loving Family in Old Europe . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2001.
  • A Mighty Fortress. A New History of the German People . HarperCollins, New York, NY 2004; 2005; Granta, London 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Steven Edgar Ozment. Remick & Gendron Funeral Home, accessed December 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ozment, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ozment, Steven Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH McComb , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2019
Place of death Rye , New Hampshire