Steven Ozment

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Steven E. Ozment (b. February 21, 1939, McComb, Mississippi) 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 McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. The father of five children ranging in age from 45 to 18, 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 European, Asian, and/or South American 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).

[edit] Major 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. 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; l983; 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, l986; l989; 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, l990.
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.