Steven Ozment, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Steven Ozment

American historian

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1939

Place of Birth: McComb, Mississippi, United States

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Steven E.
Ozment (born February 21, 1939, McComb, Mississippi) is an American historian of early modern and modern Germany, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation.
From 1990 to 2015, he was the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University.
He was Professor Emeritus.
He died on December 12, 2019. Raised in Arkansas, Ozment has lived in New England since 1960.
The father of five children, he lived for many years in Newbury, Massachusetts with his wife Susan Schweizer, Vice President and Senior Quality Manager at J.P.
Morgan Chase. Ozment has taught at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and at Yale and Stanford as well as Harvard.
The co-author of both Western and world civilization textbooks, he taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. Ozment has authored 10 books.
His Age of Reform, 1250-1550 (1980) won the Schaff History Prize (1981) and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award.
Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club and several have been translated into European and Asian languages. Ozment graduated from Hendrix College and Harvard University. A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People came out in 2005.
Ozment's study of the German world of artist Lucas Cranach the Elder was published by Yale University Press in June, 2013, under the title, The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation.