Heiko Oberman

Heiko Oberman Augustine (born 15 October 1930 in Utrecht, † April 22, 2001 in Tucson, Arizona) was a Dutch church historian.

After studying at the universities of Utrecht and Oxford, he obtained his doctorate in 1957 in Utrecht with a thesis on the scholastic theologians Thomas Bradwardine. From 1956 to 1966 he taught at the Divinity School of Harvard University, Professor of Ecclesiastical zuletzte as Winn History. As the successor of Hanns Rückert Oberman taught from 1966 to 1984 as professor of church history at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Tübingen and headed the Institute for Late Middle Ages and Reformation. Under his leadership, Tübingen became the world's most important center of research of late medieval and Reformation theology. In particular, he was concerned with Martin Luther. From 1984 until his death he was a Regents Professor of Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation History at the University of Arizona. He was married to Geertruida (* 1929) and had four children.

Writings

• Will and rating of the Reformation, 1977
• Roots of anti-Semitism. Christians and Jews fear plague in the Age of Humanism and Reformation, Severin and Siedler, Berlin 1981, 2nd edition 1983, ISBN 3-88680-023-7.
• Luther - Man between God and the Devil, 1982
• Two reformations. Luther and Calvin. Old and New World, 2000