John H. Van Engen is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

who focuses on the religious and intellectual culture of the European Middle Ages. He is Andrew V. Tackes Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

.Faculty bio
John Van Engen
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Life

He graduated from

Calvin College Calvin University, formerly Calvin College, is a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1876, Calvin University is an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church and stands in the Reforme ...

, with a BA, and from

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

, with a PhD (1976), where he studied with Gerhart Ladner. He also studied at

Heidelberg University Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest unive ...

, with Peter Classen. He joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame in 1977, and served as director of the Medieval Institute there from 1986 to 1998. He retired in 2017.

Awards

He is a 1984

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated d ...

, and 2011 Berlin Prize Fellow. His book, ''Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) won the 2009 John Gilmary Shea Prize, the 2010 Otto Gründler Book Prize, and the 2013 Haskins Medal.

Works

* * * * *Thomas F. X. Noble, John Van Engen (eds), ''European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century'', University of Notre Dame Press, 2012,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Van Engen, John 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Berlin Prize recipients Calvin University alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Heidelberg University alumni University of Notre Dame faculty Living people Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Year of birth missing (living people) Presidents of the American Society of Church History American male non-fiction writers