Robert W. Scribner
Robert W. Scribner | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 June 1941 |
| Died | 29 January 1998 (aged 56) |
| Occupations | Historian and academic |
| Spouse |
Lois Rutherford (m. 1989) |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney School of Advanced Study |
| Thesis | Reformation, Society and Humanism in Erfurt ca. 1450–ca. 1530 (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | A. G. Dickens |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Portsmouth Polytechnic King's College London Clare College, Cambridge Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Lyndal Roper |
Robert William Scribner (9 June 1941, in Sydney – 29 January 1998, in Arlington, Massachusetts) was an Australian historian who specialised in German Reformation history. He spent most of his career teaching at Clare College, Cambridge before being appointed to a chair at Harvard Divinity School two years before his death.