Bernard Vogler (30 April 1935 – 2 December 2020) was a French academic and historian. A professor at the

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, he was a specialist in the

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from the 15th to the 20th Centuries.

Biography

Bernard was the son of carpenter Georges Vogler and Catherine Merckling. He married Chantal Fischer in 1960, an honorary lecturer in Roman history at the

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. The couple would have six children. Vogler completed his primary studies in

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, and his secondary studies were in French at the Lycée Bouxwiller. He studied at the École normale d'instituteurs de Lyon from 1953 to 1955, and obtained his

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in 1960. He was a secondary school teacher in

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and

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, then was a researcher at the

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and became an assistant professor at

Marc Bloch University The University Marc Bloch, also known as Strasbourg II or UMB was a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of 2006, it had around 13,000 students. Its name used to be ''Université des Sciences Humaines'' (University of Social Sciences), but i ...

from 1969 to 1976. He defended his doctoral thesis in 1976 at

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

in 1972, titled ''L’implantation des églises protestantes dans les pays palatins de 1556 à 1619''. He worked as a researcher at the Institut d'histoire d'Alsace from 1976 to 2003 and directed the Centre de recherche régionale et rhénane from 1984 to 2003. He served as a guest professor in

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and

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before becoming a professor emeritus in 2003. Vogler was a member of the

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from 1989 to 2000 and was Vice-President of the International Commission for Comparative Ecclesiastical History from 1975 to 2001. He was President of the

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from 2004 to 2008. Bernard Vogler died in Strasbourg on 2 December 2020 at the age of 85.

Distinctions

*Knight of the

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*Officer of the

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*Officer of the

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*Prix Strasbourg (1974) *Prix-Marie-Eugène-Simon-Henri-Martin of the

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(1977) *Prix littéraire de l'Académie des Marches de l’Est (1994) *Prix Georges-Goyau of the Académie Française (1994) *Prix Flach of the

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(1995) *Prix d’honneur des Amis du Vieux Strasbourg (2000)

Publications

*''Vie religieuse en pays rhénan dans la seconde moitié du 16e siècle (1555-1619)'' (1974) *''Le clergé protestant rhénan au siècle de la Réforme'' (1976) *''Le monde germanique et helvétique à l’époque des Réformes 1517-1618'' (1981) *''Histoire de la Caisse d’Épargne de Strasbourg'' (1985) *''Histoire culturelle de l’Alsace'' (1993) *''Histoire des chrétiens d’Alsace des origines à nos jours'' (1994) *''Histoire politique de l’Alsace'' (1995) *''Histoire économique de l’Alsace'' (1997) *''L’Almanach de l’Alsace'' (2001) *''Strasbourg d’après-guerre (1945-1950)'' (2002) *''Nouvelle histoire de l’Alsace'' (2003) *''Journal de l’Alsace des origines à nos jours'' (2004) *''La Décapole. Dix villes libres alliées pour leurs libertés 1354-1679'' (2009) *''Geschichte des Elsass'' (2012)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vogler, Bernard 1935 births 2020 deaths People from Bas-Rhin 20th-century French historians Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg category:Historians of Protestantism 21st-century French historians