Joachim Whaley is Professor of German History and Thought at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. His research interests lie in German history, thought and culture from 1500 to the present day. He is the author of Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529-1819 (1985) and the editor of Mirrors of Mortality: Studies in the Social History of Death (1981; reissued in 2011). He has also published numerous articles, reviews and contributions to handbooks and lexicons of German history and literature. His latest book is the two-volume Germany and the Holy Roman Empire 1493-1806 (2012), which covers virtually every aspect of German history from the reign of Maximilian I to the dissolution of the Reich and appears in the Oxford HistoryJoachim Whaley is Professor of German History and Thought at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. His research interests lie in German history, thought and culture from 1500 to the present day. He is the author of Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529-1819 (1985) and the editor of Mirrors of Mortality: Studies in the Social History of Death (1981; reissued in 2011). He has also published numerous articles, reviews and contributions to handbooks and lexicons of German history and literature. His latest book is the two-volume Germany and the Holy Roman Empire 1493-1806 (2012), which covers virtually every aspect of German history from the reign of Maximilian I to the dissolution of the Reich and appears in the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe series. He is currently writing a history of Austria and German-speaking Europe from the later Middle Ages to the present day.
Joachim Whaley has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1984. In 2013 he was awarded a LittD by the University of Cambridge for his books and articles on early modern German history....more