John Van Engen
{{Short description|American historian}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox academic
| awards = {{ubl|Guggenheim Fellow (1984)|Berlin Prize (2011)|John Gilmary Shea Prize (2009)|Otto Gründler Book Prize (2010)|Haskins Medal (2013)}}
| occupation = historian
| workplaces = University of Notre Dame
| education = Calvin College (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles (PhD)
}}
John H. Van Engen is an American historian 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.Faculty bio: [https://history.nd.edu/people/john-van-engen/ John Van Engen] nd.edu
Life
He graduated from Calvin College, with a BA, and from University of California, Los Angeles, with a PhD (1976), where he studied with Gerhart Ladner. He also studied at Heidelberg University, 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/15051-john-h-van-engen |title=John H. Van Engen - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |accessdate=2011-11-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112190652/http://www.gf.org/fellows/15051-john-h-van-engen |archivedate=2011-11-12 }} 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,{{Cite web|url=http://www.achahistory.org/2010/01/van-engen-wins-john-gilmary-shea-prize/|title = Van Engen Wins John Gilmary Shea Prize|date = 20 January 2010}} the 2010 Otto Gründler Book Prize,{{Cite web |url=http://al.nd.edu/news/15961-john-van-engen-wins-grndler-book-prize-in-medieval-studies/ |title=John van Engen Wins Gründler Book Prize in Medieval Studies // News // College of Arts and Letters // University of Notre Dame |access-date=2011-11-23 |archive-date=2012-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426001215/http://al.nd.edu/news/15961-john-van-engen-wins-grndler-book-prize-in-medieval-studies/ |url-status=dead }} and the 2013 Haskins Medal.{{cite web | url=http://www.medievalacademy.org/?page=Haskins_Medal_Winner | title=Winner of the Haskins Medal - the Medieval Academy of America }}{{cite web |title=History Professor's Book Wins Three Major Prizes |first1=Lisa |last1=Walenceus |first2=Joanna |last2=Basile |date=October 23, 2010 |access-date=2021-09-23 |url=https://history.nd.edu/news-events/news/history-professor-s-book-wins-three-major-prizes/}}
Works
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rS8HrLKr4GYC&q=john++van+engen+rupert+of+deutz&pg=PR2| title=Rupert of Deutz| publisher=University of California Press| year= 1983| isbn= 0-520-04577-7}}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L9GEE02e9TUC&q=inauthor%3A%22John+H.+Van+Engen%22| title=Devotio Moderna| publisher=Paulist Press| year= 1988| isbn= 978-0-8091-2962-1}}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j4ylXnDRLXgC&q=inauthor%3A%22John+H.+Van+Engen%22| title=Educating people of faith: exploring the history of Jewish and Christian communities| publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing| year= 2004| isbn= 978-0-8028-4936-6 }}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pxr7zsnBhvgC&q=inauthor%3A%22John+H.+Van+Engen%22| title=Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Late Middle Ages| publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press| year= 2008| isbn= 978-0-8122-4119-8}}
- Thomas F. X. Noble, John Van Engen (eds), European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, {{ISBN|978-0-268-03610-2}}
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Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:Berlin Prize recipients
Category:Calvin University alumni
Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:Heidelberg University alumni
Category:University of Notre Dame faculty
Category:Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Presidents of the American Society of Church History