Joachim Whaley FBA (born 25 August 1954 in

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, London) is a historian and linguist at

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where he is Professor of German History and Thought. He has been a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College since 1987. Joachim Whaley was educated at St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath and

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, where he received his BA (1975) and PhD (1983) in History. He primarily teaches and researches in German history and culture since 1500 and contemporary German politics; additionally, he is an instructor of the German language and has a special interest in translation. Whaley is the author of ''Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529–1819 ''(Cambridge, 1985) and ''Germany and the Holy Roman Empire 1493-1806'' (Oxford, 2012), a study of the

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published in two volumes as part of the '' Oxford History of Early Modern Europe''. He currently has 27 works in 102 publications in two languages (English and German); both his books on religious toleration and on the Holy Roman Empire have been translated into German, while his edited volume ''Mirrors of Mortality: studies in the social history of death'' has gone through 24 English editions between 1981 and 2012. In 2010 he was awarded a Pilkington Teaching Prize by the University of Cambridge. Whaley has been a Fellow of the

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since 1984. In 2013 he was awarded a LittD by the University of Cambridge for his books and articles on early modern German history. He was elected

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of the

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in July 2015.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Whaley, Joachim 1954 births Living people Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Historians of Germany Fellows of the Royal Historical Society 20th-century British writers 21st-century British writers 20th-century British historians 21st-century British historians Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of history Fellows of the British Academy