Richard Kieckhefer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 (age 79–80) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Saint Louis University University of Texas at Austin |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Northwestern University |
Richard Kieckhefer (born 1946[1]) is an Americanmedievalist,religious historian, scholar ofchurch architecture, and author. He is Professor of History and John Evans Professor of Religious Studies atNorthwestern University.[2]
After an undergraduate education atSaint Louis University, Kieckhefer earned a PhD in history from theUniversity of Texas in 1972, spending a year inMunich at theMonumenta Germaniae Historica Institute with the support of theGerman Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).[3]
Kieckhefer has written onsainthood, medievalritual magic,[4]witchcraft, medieval and contemporarychurch architecture,hoopoes, andmystical literature;[5] he has also edited and translated important texts from medieval Latin.[6] He has taught at Northwestern University since 1975.[7] HisMagic in the Middle Ages, first published in 1989, has been translated into Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Italian, and Greek, and is forthcoming in Turkish, Portuguese, and Korean. He was President of the American Society of Church History in 1997 and of the Societas Magica from 1995 to 2004.
In addition to the DAAD, his research has been supported by theGuggenheim Foundation,[8] the American Council of Learned Societies, and theNational Endowment for the Humanities. In 2006, he was elected a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.[9][10]
