Steven Ozment
Encyclopedia
Steven E. Ozment is an American
historian
of early modern and modern Germany
, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation
.
Raised in Arkansas
, Ozment has lived in New England
since 1960. He is the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University
. The father of five children, he presently lives in Newbury, Massachusetts
with his wife, Susan Schweizer, Vice President and Senior Quality Manager at J.P. Morgan Chase.
Ozment has taught at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
, Germany
and at Yale
and Stanford as well as Harvard. The co-author of both Western and world civilization textbooks, he taught Western Civ at Yale
, Stanford, and Harvard and continues to teach it today.
He has authored ten books and his Age of Reform, 1250-1550 (1980) won the Schaff History Prize (1981) and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award
. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club and several have been translated into Europe
an and Asian
languages.
His latest opus is A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People (2005). He is currently researching a study of the German world of artist Lucas Cranach the Elder
and is due to be published by Yale University Press
, January 3, 2012 under the title, "The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation."
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
of early modern and modern Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation
Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...
.
Raised in Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
, Ozment has lived in New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
since 1960. He is the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. The father of five children, he presently lives in Newbury, Massachusetts
Newbury, Massachusetts
Newbury is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,666 at the 2010 census. Newbury includes the villages of Old Town , Plum Island and Byfield, home of The Governor's Academy , a private preparatory school.- History :Newbury Plantation was settled and incorporated...
with his wife, Susan Schweizer, Vice President and Senior Quality Manager at J.P. Morgan Chase.
Ozment has taught at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen is a public university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of Germany's oldest universities, internationally noted in medicine, natural sciences and the humanities. In the area of German Studies it has been ranked first among...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and at Yale
YALE
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and Stanford as well as Harvard. The co-author of both Western and world civilization textbooks, he taught Western Civ at Yale
YALE
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, Stanford, and Harvard and continues to teach it today.
He has authored ten books and his Age of Reform, 1250-1550 (1980) won the Schaff History Prize (1981) and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club and several have been translated into Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an and Asian
Asian people
Asian people or Asiatic people is a term with multiple meanings that refers to people who descend from a portion of Asia's population.- Central Asia :...
languages.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder , was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving...
and is due to be published by Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....
, January 3, 2012 under the title, "The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation."
Major works
- Homo spiritualis: a comparative study of the anthropology of Johannes TaulerJohannes TaulerJohannes Tauler was a German mystic theologian.- Life :He was born about the year 1300 in Strasbourg, and was educated at the Dominican convent in that city, where Meister Eckhart, who greatly influenced him, was professor of theology in the monastery school...
, Jean Gerson and Martin Luther (1509-16) in the context of their theological thought. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1969. - ed., Jean Gerson: selections from A Deo exivit, Contra curiositatem studentium and De mystica theologia speculative. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1969.
- ed., The Reformation in Medieval Perspective. Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1971.
- Mysticism and Dissent: Religious Ideology and Social Protest in the Sixteenth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973.
- The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975; 1977.
- co-author, The Western Heritage. New York, NY: MacMillan, 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. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980; 1981.
- ed., Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research. St. Louis, MO: Center for Reformation Research, 1982.
- When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983; 1985.
- co-author, The Heritage of World Civilizations. New York, NY: MacMillan, 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. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1986; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989.
- ed., Religion and Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation. Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1989.
- ed. & trans., Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany. A Chronicle of Their Lives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
- Protestants: The Birth Of a Revolution. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1993; 1994; London: HarperCollins, 1993.
- The Bürgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996; New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1997.
- Flesh and Spirit: A Study of Private Life in Early Modern Germany. New York, NY: Viking/Penguin, 1999; 2001.
- Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
- A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2004; 2005; London: Granta, 2005.