Joachim Whaley

Joachim Whaley (born September 1954 near London) is a historian and linguist at Cambridge University where he is Professor of German History and Thought. He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He teaches and researches in German history and culture since 1500 and contemporary German politics. He also teaches German language and has a special interest in translation. He has 27 works in 102 publications in two languages (English and German) and his Mirrors of mortality: studies in the social history of death has 24 English editions published between 1981 and 2012. He is the author of Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529-1819 (Cambridge, 1985) and of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire 1493-1806, (Oxford, 2012) a study of the Holy Roman Empire published in two volumes. His books on toleration and on the Holy Roman Empire have been translated into German. He has also written numerous articles, reviews and contributed to handbooks and lexicons of German history and literature. In 2010 he was awarded a Pilkington Teaching Prize by the University of Cambridge. Joachim Whaley has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1984. In 2013 he was awarded a LittD by the University of Cambridge for his books and articles on early modern German history. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in July 2015.