CURRICULUM VITAE (brief)

HEIKO A. OBERMAN
Professor of Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation History
The University of Arizona, Tucson


DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH 
October 15, 1930, Utrecht, Holland
 
EDUCATION
Stedelijk Gymnasium, Utrecht
University of Utrecht, Autumn 1949
Sekolah Tingghi, Indonesia, January to December 1950
Oxford University, May 1954 to September 1955
University of Utrecht, January 1951 to April 1956
   Drs. cum laude, April 1956
   Dr. Theol. cum laude, October 1957
 
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 'Assistent', University of Utrecht, 1957-58
Instructor, Harvard Divinity School, July 1958
Associate Professor, Harvard Divinity School, July 1959
Visiting Lecturer, Brandeis University, 1960-61
Dudleian Lecturer, Harvard University, 1961-62
Professor of Church History, Harvard Divinity School, July 1963
Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Harvard University, July 1964-66
Guest Professor, University of Zurich, Summer term 1966
Ordinarius, University of Tübingen, 1966-84
Director of the Institut für Spätmittelalter und Reformation, University of Tübingen, 1966-84
Guest Professor, Stanford University, 1976
Erasmus Professor, Harvard University, 1979-80
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1981-82
Guest Professor in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1982
Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1984
Professor of History, University of Arizona, 1984-88
Regents' Professor of History, University of Arizona, 1988-2001
 
 
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member of the Society for Reformation Research, 1958-2001
Member of the Medieval Academy of America, 1958-2001
Member of Renaissance Society of America, 1960-2001
Observer at the four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, 1962-65
Member of the Council of the American Society of Church History, 1963
Member of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1984-2001
 
 
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Editor-in-Chief:
• Studies in the History of Christian Thought, and
• Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought (Brill, Leiden)
• Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte in Quellen (Neukirchener Verlag)
• Journal of Early Modern History: Contacts, Contrasts, Comparisons
Coeditor:
• Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte
• Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte (1966-93)
• Archiv zur Weimarer Ausgabe der Werke Martin Luthers
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der biblischen
  Exgese und Beiträge zur Geschichte der biblischen Hermeneutik
• Kerk en Theologie
• Journal of Political Thought
• Studies in Historical Theology
• Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
• Classics in Western Spirituality
Member of the Advisory Committee:
• The Collected Works of Erasmus
• Tyndale Edition
• The Academic American Encyclopedia
• Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae
• Studies in Spirituality
• Institute for the Advancement of the Study of the Reformation
• Member of the Governing Board of the Center for Calvin Studies
• The American Cusanus Society
• Member of the Advisory Council for Church History
• Reformation series (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands)
• Overseas Member of the Advisory Editorial Board for The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

 
AWARDS, PRIZES, AND HONORARY AFFILIATIONS
Honorary MA degree, Harvard University, 1959
Research grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, 1961
Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1963
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1963
Recipient of the Robert Troup Paine Prize (for The Harvest of Medieval Theology, 1963)
D.D. h.c. degree, University of St. Louis, 1971
D.D. h.c. degree, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1984
Recipient of the Historischer Sachbuchpreis for "the most significant book in the field of history during the decade 1975-1985" (for Luther: Mensch zwischen Gott und Teufel, 1983)
Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, 1984, Chairman of the 1990 Haskins Medal Committee
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, 1988
Honorary Fellow of the Historical Society of South Africa, 1991
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, England, Trinity Term 1991
Member of the American Philosophical Society, 1991
Humanities Seminar Teaching Award, November 1992
Member of the Nominating Committee, Medieval Academy of America, April 1993
Participation in "The Longest Hatred," two-part documentary (BBC/PBS) on the History of anti-Semitism, April/May 1993
Chairman of Advisory Board for the Rudolf Agricola Instituut, Groningen Institute for the Humanities, the Netherlands
Winner of the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History, 1996, awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Teaching Award for Graduate Instruction, 1999
Doctor of Letters, h.c. degree, Valparaiso University, Indiana, 2000
Lifetime Achievement Award, The University of Arizona, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Board of Advisors, 2001
Knighthood for extraordinary representation of Dutch scholarship and culture, to be conferred by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, 30 April 2002

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