David H. Price (historian) explained
David H. Price |
Nationality: | American |
Birth Name: | David Hotchkiss Price |
Birth Date: | 29 January 1957 |
Occupation: | historian |
Alma Mater: | Yale University |
David Hotchkiss Price (born January 29, 1957) is an historian and a scholar of early modern culture. He teaches at Vanderbilt University, where he is Professor of Religious Studies, History, and Jewish Studies. Price studied classics (BA) and German literature (MA) at the University of Cincinnati before receiving his PhD in German Studies from Yale University (1985).[1] He also studied at the University of Tübingen and the University of Munich. From 2005 to 2016, he was a professor at the University of Illinois. He previously taught at Yale and the University of Texas at Austin. Price is the author of numerous books and articles on the Bible in English, Reformation drama, humanist poetry, Albrecht Dürer, and Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish Book Controversy of the early sixteenth century.[2]
Selected publications
- Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books. Oxford University Press, 2011.[3] [4]
- Nicodemus Frischlin, Phasma. Critical edition of Latin text, with translation and introduction by David H. Price. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2007.
- (Co-author) “Let It Go Among Our People”: An Illustrated History of the English Bible from Wyclif to the King James Version. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2004.
- Albrecht Dürer’s Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith. University of Michigan Press, 2003.[5]
- Albrecht Dürer. Underweysung der Messung. Electronic facsimile of 1538 edition (CD-ROM). Commentary by David Price. Palo Alto: Octavo, 2003.[6]
- Janus Secundus. Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1996.
- The Reformation of the Bible: The Bible of the Reformation, with Jaroslav Pelikan and Valerie Hotchkiss, Yale University Press, 1996. (exhibition catalog) Winner of the Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Award.[7]
- The Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin: Essays on Humanist Drama in Germany. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: David Price. University of Illinois. 7 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140808123755/http://www.history.illinois.edu/people/dhprice. 8 August 2014. dead.
- Web site: David Price. Department of Religious Studies. en. 2018-05-19. 2018-10-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20181010060846/https://as.vanderbilt.edu/religiousstudies/people/price.php. dead.
- Shear. Adam. Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books.. H-Net. October 2012. 1 June 2015.
- Sewell. John. April 2013. David H. Price. Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books.. AJS Review. 37. 1. 156. 10.1017/S0364009413000159. 163065430.
- Web site: Smith on Price, 'Albrecht Duerer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith' H-German H-Net. networks.h-net.org. en. 2018-05-19.
- Book: De symmetria partium in rectis formis humanorum corporum ; Underweysung der Messung. Dürer. Albrecht. Price. David. Dürer. Albrecht. Octavo Corporation. 2003. Octavo. 1891788078. Oakland, Calif.. 863541942.
- News: How the Bible Came To the Common Man. 1997-02-24. Christian Science Monitor. 2018-05-19. 0882-7729.