Mary Lindemann (born 1949) is an American historian, professor of history and former chair of the History Department at the

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. She was president of the

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during the term 2020 and president of the

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during the term 2017–2018. She is a leading expert on the history of early modern Europe, the

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and the

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, especially early modern German, Dutch, and Flemish history. She is co-editor-in-chief of the journal ''Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal''. She received her Ph.D. in history from the

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in 1980, and has been professor of history at the University of Miami since 2004. She was a Fellow-in-Residence at the

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2002–2003, was affiliated with the

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (2000-2012) was a research and teaching centre within University College London dedicated to the history of medicine. It was created through a grant from the Wellcome Trust, on the mode ...

2007–2008, was a fellow-in-residence at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts in Brussels in 2011 and a senior research fellow of the State of Lower Saxony at the

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2014–2016. Her first book ''Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712–1830'' was honored as an "

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" by ''

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''. She received the William H. Welch Medal in 1998. She received an NEH fellowship for 1997–1998 and a

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for 1998–1999.

Bibliography

;Books *''Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712–1830'',

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, 1990 *''Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 *''Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe'',

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, 1999 *''Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 *''The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648–1790'',

, 2015 ;Chapters and papers *"The Anxious Merchant, the Bold Speculator, and the Malicious Bankrupt: Doing Business in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg," in Margaret C. Jacob and Catherine Secretan (eds.), ''The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindemann, Mary 1949 births Living people American women historians University of Cincinnati alumni University of Miami faculty Historians of Germany American economic historians American medical historians Historians from Florida