Stefan Bauer is Lecturer in Early Modern History at King's College London.[1] From 2019 to 2021, he taught at the University of Warwick[2] and at Royal Holloway, University of London.[3] From 2017–18, he served as Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of York, following a two-year Marie Curie Fellowship also at York.[4] In 2018, he completed his Habilitation at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, obtaining the venia legendi in Early Modern History. Bauer received his PhD from the Warburg Institute, London, in 2004, after university studies in Aachen, Cambridge, and Siena.[5] In 2023, Bauer was elected to the Academia Europaea.
Bauer has published widely on the religious and intellectual history of Europe. His first monograph on Jacob Burckhardt came out in 2001.[6] It received numerous reviews, for instance by the classical scholar Hugh Lloyd-Jones in English Historical Review.[7] The political scientist Wilhelm Hennis referred to it as "phenomenally learned"[8] and the historian Peter Funke as "an outstanding achievement in the history of science".[9] Bauer's study on the censorship of the Lives of Popes by Platina was published in 2006.[10] The Sixteenth Century Journal noted that "Stefan Bauer has produced a scholarly tool essential for investigating the intersection of late-Renaissance ideas and practices with those of the Catholic Reformation".[11] Renaissance Quarterly judged his work to be "an excellent book on an important humanist, his rewriting of papal history, and the reception and censorship of this highly influential and often scandalous work".[12] In 2020, Bauer published a monograph with Oxford University Press. The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform presents the biography of a crucial sixteenth-century author, Onofrio Panvinio, who changed the historical narrative about the history of the Catholic Church. It gives an account of the invention of a critical, source-based papal history. It also discusses the subsequent confessionalization and dogmatization of church history and reflects on the perpetually uneasy relationship between history and theology. This book has been judged favourably by critics. Daniel Woolf wrote in Marginalia Los Angeles Review of Books: "Bauer's volume appears in the Oxford-Warburg Studies, perhaps the most prestigious English-language book series concerned with Renaissance and early modern intellectual and cultural history. … The Invention of Papal History is an admirably readable and fascinating portrait, not only of its principal subject, Panvinio, but also of the culture of late Renaissance humanism at a time of profound instability in Europe".[13]
Bauer is a Fellow both of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) and the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).[14] His most recent research project, for which Bauer received funding from the European Commission, is entitled "History and Theology: the Creation of Disinterested Scholarship from Dogmatic Stalemate".[15] Two exhibitions connected to this project, "The Art of Disagreeing Badly: Religious Dispute in Early Modern Europe", were opened at an interfaith event at the York Minster Library on 15 November 2016 and at the Middle Temple Library in London on 3 July 2017.[16] Bauer is also the UK Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association.[17]
In 2023, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.[18]
References
edit- ^ "Dr Stefan Bauer". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^ "stefanbauer". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^ "Dr Stefan Bauer - Research - Royal Holloway, University of London". pure.royalholloway.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ^ "About". History & Theology. 9 February 2016.
- ^ "Author's Page".
- ^ Polisbild und Demokratieverständnis. Schwabe Verlag. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ^ Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (2002). "Review of Bauer, Polisbild, in English Historical Review, 117, 2002, pp. 1361–62". The English Historical Review. 117: 1361–1362. doi:10.1093/ehr/117.474.1361.
- ^ Hennis, Wilhelm (2006). "'Hellenic Intellectual Culture' and the Origins of Weber's Political Thinking" (PDF). Max Weber Studies. 6: 257–303, at p. 289 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Funke, Peter. "Review of Bauer, Polisbild, in Das Historisch-Politische Buch 51 (2003), pp. 649-50" (PDF). Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ^ The Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's 'Lives of the Popes' Brepols Publishers. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ^ Kagay, Donald J. (2008). "Review of Bauer, Censorship and Fortuna, in Sixteenth Century Journal, 39, 2008, pp. 779–81". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 39 (3): 779–781. doi:10.2307/20479020. JSTOR 20479020.
- ^ D'Elia, Anthony F. (2007). "Review of Bauer, Censorship and Fortuna". Renaissance Quarterly. 60: 887–888. doi:10.1353/ren.2007.0260. S2CID 191002618.
- ^ "How Papal History Was Invented |". 29 January 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
- ^ "Dr Stefan Bauer - Research - Royal Holloway, University of London". pure.royalholloway.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ^ History and Theology project. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ^ "The Art of Disagreeing Badly: Religious Dispute in Early Modern Europe".
- ^ "UK Chapter Launch". Marie Curie Alumni Association, Brussels. 26 April 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ^ "Stefan Bauer". Member. Academia Europaea. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
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