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09.04.2019
2019 Lucas Prize for historian Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Faculty of Protestant Theology has announced that this year’s Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize will go to Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. MacCulloch is an Anglican theologian and is considered one of the world’s foremost Reformation and Early Modern historians. He receives the Lucas Prize for his services to the discipline and for his comprehensive understanding of the complex relationship between religion and European history.
Diarmaid MacCulloch (born in 1951) was ordained a Deacon of the Anglican Church after completing his Theology studies. Since 1997, he has been Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford; his research focuses primarily on the Reformation and Tudor England. He was an editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History for two decades and has often appeared in BBC historical documentaries. He was nighted in 2012.
The jury said that his masterly work on the history of the Reformation showed how it redrew the religious, political and social map in the years 1490 to 1700. He describes the Reformation process as many-layered and involving all the confessions; and he draws a polycentric picture of Europe in the Early Modern Age, the jury added. In this, it found, he had departed from the conventional patterns of national history-writing and promoted the very notion of tolerance to which the Leopold Lucas Prize is dedicated.
This year’s Lucas Prize for Junior Researchers will go to historical researcher Alexa von Winning for her doctoral thesis, Leaving Home. The Noble Family, Imperial Russia, and Global Orthodoxy, 1855-1936“ in Modern and Contemporary History.
The award will be presented on Tuesday, May 7, at 5:15pm in the Festsaal, Neue Aula, Geschwister Scholl Platz, 72074 Tübingen.
The €50,000 Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize honors outstanding achievements in the fields of theology, intellectual history, historical research, and philosophy. It goes to individuals who have promoted tolerance and better relations between people and nations.
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