William J. Wright
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Present status:
Professor and Head, Department of History
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Major field:
Renaissance and Reformation Europe
Other fields:
French Revolution, Revolutions, & World History
Ph.D. dissertation:
"Reformation Influence on Hessian Education"
Directed by Harold J. Grimm
Papers delivered:
"The Impact of the Reformation on Hessian Education," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 1974, St. Louis, Missouri.
"The Reformation and Revolution in Hesse," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 1976, St. Louis, Missouri.
"The Annalistes' Approach to Indigence in Sixteenth Century Hesse," Ohio Academy of History, April, 1978, Columbus, Ohio.
"The Hessian Reformation," The Seventeenth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May, 1982, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
"Philip of Hesse as a Revolutionary Leader," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 1982, St. Louis, Missouri.
"Continental Reformation: Church and State," for roundtable discussions on recent research and current problems, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 1983, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"Evaluating the Success of Sixteenth Century Education Policy," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 1984, St. Louis, Missouri.
"Was There a Counter-Reformation Strategy in the Early Period?" Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 1987, Tempe, Arizona.
"Trends in Poverty and the Lutheran Poor Relief System in Hesse, 1530s-1610s," Seventh International Congress for Luther Research, Oslo, Norway, August, 1988.
"Economic-Moral Legislation and Reformation Under Albrecht of Mainz," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 1992, Atlanta, Georgia.
"From Ranke to Treitschke; an Evolving German Luther," Eighth International Congress for Luther Research, August, 1993, St. Paul, Minnesota.
"Luther, the Two-Kingdoms Teaching and the Natural World," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 1994, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. "The Romans Argumentum of Andreas Hyperius: A Hessian Document," Ninth International Luther Congress for Luther Research, August, 1997, Heidelberg, Germany.
"Martin Luther's Two-Kingdoms Teaching in the Commentary on the First Three Chapters of Genesis," Tenth International Luther Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8. August 2002.
Published Essays:
"The Homberg Synod and Philip of Hesse's Plan for a New Church-State Settlement," The Sixteenth Century Journal, 4 (1973), 23-46.
The Impact of the Reformation on Hessian Education," Church History, 44 (1975), 182-198.
"Reformation Contributions to the Development of Public Welfare Policy in Hesse," Journal of Modern History, 49 (1977), D1145-1179.
"A Closer Look at House Poor Relief Through the Common Chest and Indigence in Sixteenth Century Hesse," Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 70 (1979), 225-238.
"Philip of Hesse," "Lambert of Avignon," "Adam Krafft," and Heinz von Luder," in The Holy Roman Empire, Jonathan W. Zophy, ed. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980).
"Philip of Hesse's Vision of Protestant Unity and the Marburg Colloquy," Pietas et Societas. New Trends in Reformation Social History. Essays in Memory of Harold J. Grimm, Kyle C. Sessions & Phillip N. Bebb, eds. (Kirksville, M.: Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1985).
"Personality Profiles of Four Leaders of the German Lutheran Reformation," The Psychohistory Review, 14 (1985), 12-22.
"Evaluating the Results of Sixteenth Century Educational Policy: Some Hessian Data," The Sixteenth Century Journal, 18 (1987), 411-426.
"Mainz versus Rome: Two Responses to Luther in the 1520s," Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 82 (1991) 83-105.
" Hesse," "Philipp of Hesse," Adam Krafft," "Francois Lambert," & "The Pack Affair," in , The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation," Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed, 3 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996),.
"The Nature of Early Capitalism," Germany: A Social and Economic History, Sheilagh Ogilvie and Bob Scribner, eds. (London: Edward Arnold, 1996), 181-208.
"Hesse," Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Erika Rummel & Paul Grendler, eds. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999), vol. 3, pp. 147-148.
"Landgrave Philip of Hesse (Philip the Protestant)," Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed. (New York: Routlege, forthcoming).
Books:
Capitalism, the State, and the Lutheran Reformation: Sixteenth-Century Hesse (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1988).
Significant Book Reviews:
Albrecht Beutel, Martin Luther. Briefe an Freunde und an die Familie, in Sixteenth Century Journal, Summer, 1987. pp. 264-265.
Claudia Schnurmann, Kommerz und Klüngel: Der Englandhandel Kölner Kaufleute im 16. Jahrhundert,in American Historical Review, December, 1992, pp. 1549-1550.
Manfred Rudersdorf, Ludwig IV: Landgraf von Hessen-Marburg 1537-1604; Landesteilung und Luthertum in Hessen, in American Historical Review, December, 1993, p. 1625.
Valentin Groebner, Ökonomie ohne Haus: Zum Wirtschaften armer Leute in Nürnberg am Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts, in American Historical Review, April, 1995, pp. 507-508.
Barbara Krug-Richter, Zwischen Fasten und Festmahl, in American Historical Review, February, 1996, pp.196-197.
H. C. Erik Midelfort, A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany, in American Historical Review, June, 2000, p. 1029.
Grants, Honors, & Awards:
Kappa Kappa Psi
Phi Alpha Theta
Dissertation grant from O.S.U., 1968-69
U.C. Foundation Grants for research; 1970, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, & 1985
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Studienaufenthalt Grant for Research, 1978
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship, 1979-80
Newberry Library Mini-Institute in the New Social History, 1981
Exceptional Merit Award for Teaching and Research, UTC, 1987-88
Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for Humanities, 1989
