Steven Ozment


Steven E. Ozment was an American historian of early modern and modern Germany, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation. From 1990 to 2015, he was the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He was Professor Emeritus. He died on December 12, 2019.
Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Arkansas, Ozment lived in New England from 1960 onwards. The father of five children, he lived for many years in Newbury, Massachusetts, with his wife Susan Schweizer, Vice President and Senior Quality Manager at J.P. Morgan Chase.
Ozment taught at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and at Yale and Stanford as well as Harvard.
Ozment authored 10 books. His Age of Reform, 1250–1550 won the Schaff History Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books were selections of the History Book Club and several have been translated into European and Asian languages.
Ozment graduated from Hendrix College and Harvard University.
Image:Nuernberg schedel.JPG|thumb|250px|The cover of Ozment's A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People depicts medieval Nuremberg as shown in the Nuremberg Chronicle
A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People came out in 2005. Ozment's study of the German world of artist Lucas Cranach the Elder was published by Yale University Press in June, 2013, under the title, The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation.

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