Jonathan Wright (historian)

Jonathan A. Wright (born 1969 in Hartlepool ) is an English historian.

Jonathan A. Wright studied at the Universities of St. Andrews, Pennsylvania and Oxford, where he received his doctorate in history in 1998. He is not to be confused with Jonathan Richard Cassé Wright ( b. 1941 ), who taught History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford until 2009.

Jonathan A. Wright has become known in Germany mainly by its also translated into German biography of Gustav Stresemann. For the presentation of the German translation published in 2006, Hans Mommsen could be won. His book about the Jesuits has been translated into seven languages. Wright also writes regular reviews for the Catholic magazine America and the Catholic Herald newspaper.

Works

• Heretics: the Creation of Christianity From the Gnostics to the Modern Church. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2011.
• Germany and the Origins of the Second World War. Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2007.
• God's Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power - A History of the Jesuits. Doubleday, New York, 2004.
• The Jesuits; Missions, Myths and Histories. Harper Collins, New York, 2004. The Jesuits: Myth - power - mission. Magnus, Essen, 2005.

• Gustav Stresemann: 1878 - 1929; Weimar's greatest statesman. DTV, Munich 2006.