David H. Price (historian)

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David H. Price
Born
David Hotchkiss Price

(1957-01-29) January 29, 1957 (age 67)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
Occupationhistorian

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[edit]

  • 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.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "David Price". University of Illinois. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  2. ^ "David Price". Department of Religious Studies. Archived from the original on 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
  3. ^ Shear, Adam (October 2012). "Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books". H-Net. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  4. ^ Sewell, John (April 2013). "David H. Price. Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books". AJS Review. 37 (1): 156. doi:10.1017/S0364009413000159. S2CID 163065430.
  5. ^ "Smith on Price, 'Albrecht Duerer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith' | H-German | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
  6. ^ Dürer, Albrecht; Price, David; Dürer, Albrecht; Octavo Corporation (2003). De symmetria partium in rectis formis humanorum corporum ; Underweysung der Messung. Oakland, Calif.: Octavo. ISBN 1891788078. OCLC 863541942.
  7. ^ "How the Bible Came To the Common Man". Christian Science Monitor. 1997-02-24. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2018-05-19.

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