David H. Price (historian)

David Hotchkiss Price (January 29, 1957) is an American historian and a scholar of early modern culture. He is Professor of Religious Studies, History, and Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Price studied classics (BA) and German (MA) at the University of Cincinnati before receiving his PhD in German from Yale University (1985).^[1] He previously taught at Yale and the University of Texas at Austin. Price is the author of books on the Bible in English, Reformation drama, humanist poetry, Albrecht Dürer, and Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish Book Controversy of the early sixteenth century.

Publications

• Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books. Oxford University Press, 2011.^[2][3]
• Nicodemus Frischlin, Phasma. Critical edition of Latin text, with translation and introduction by David H. Price. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2007.
• (Co-author) “Let It Go Among Our People”: An Illustrated History of the English Bible from Wyclif to the King James Version. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2004.
• Albrecht Dürer’s Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith. University of Michigan Press, 2003.
• Albrecht Dürer. Underweysung der Messung. Electronic facsimile of 1538 edition (CD-ROM). Commentary by David Price. Palo Alto: Octavo, 2003.
• Janus Secundus. Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1996.
• The Reformation of the Bible: The Bible of the Reformation, with Jaroslav Pelikan and Valerie Hotchkiss, Yale University Press, 1996. (exhibition catalog) Winner of the Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Award.
• The Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin: Essays on Humanist Drama in Germany. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

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