Robert William Scribner (9 June 1941, in

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– 29 January 1998, in Arlington, Massachusetts) was an Australian historian. Scribner held bachelor's and master's degrees from the

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. After writing his Ph.D. in 1970, he completed a study on the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

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, which was published in Past & Present (University of London). His first teaching assignment followed at the Portsmouth Polytechnic. From 1979 to 1981 he taught at

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. Subsequently, Scribner taught as a fellow at

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, where he became one of the founders of early modern research, along with

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and Peter Burke. In 1996, he was appointed to the Department of Religious History at

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. His main focus was the German-speaking Reformation. For academic teaching he translated many sources about the

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in Germany into English, concluding with ''The German Peasants' War. A history in documents'' (Humanities Press International, 1991).Peter Blickle: Nekrolog Robert William Scribner 1941–1998. In: ''Historische Zeitschrift.'' Band 281, 2005, S. 547–549.

Selected publications

* Robert W. Scribner. ''For the sake of simple folk. Popular propaganda for the German Reformation'' ( Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture. Bd. 2). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1981, . * Robert W. Scribner (ed. Lyndal Roper). ''Religion and culture in Germany (1400-1800)''. Leiden : Brill, 2001. 186504235; German edition: ''Religion und Kultur in Deutschland 1400-1800'' (Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte. Bd. 175). Herausgegeben von Lyndal Roper. 2. Auflage, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, . * Robert W Scribner. ''The reformation in national context.'' Cambridge .a.Cambridge Univ. Press 1998 833681692 * Robert W Scribner. ''The reformation in national context.'' Cambridge .a.Cambridge Univ. Press 1998 833681692 * Robert W Scribner. ''Popular culture and popular movements in reformation Germany,'' London ; Ronceverte, WV : Hambledon Press, 1988. 181822124 * Robert W Scribner. ''The German Reformation.'' London : Macmillan, 1986. OCLC 59093285 * with Sheilagh C. Ogilvie. ''Germany: a new social and economic history. Volume 1, 1450–1630. London ; New York ; Sydney : A. Arnold, 1996. 468817585 * with Sheilagh Ogilvie; R J Overy. ''Germany : a new social and economic history.'' London ; New York : Arnold, 1996-2003. 602992252 * with Trevor Johnson (co-eds.). ''Popular religion in Germany and central Europe, 1400–1800''. Basingstoke : St. Martin's Press, 1996. 59093285 * with C. Scott Dixon, ''The German Reformation.'' Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 52121514 * with

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. Religion and culture in Germany (1400-1800), Leiden : Brill, 2001. 186504235 * with Gerhard Benecke ''The German Peasant War 1525. New Viewpoints.'' George Allen & Unwin, London u. a. 1979, . * with

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. ''Problems in the historical anthropology of early modern Europe.'' (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen; Bd. 78.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997. .

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Sources

*Peter Blickle: Nekrolog Robert William Scribner 1941–1998. In: ''Historische Zeitschrift.'' Band 281, 2005, S. 547–549. *Thomas A. Brady, Jr.: Robert William („Bob“) Scribner (1941–1998). In: ''Central European History.'' Bd. 31, Nr 3, 1998, S. 293–296 (online) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scribner, Robert W. 1941 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Australian historians