Die Gesellschaft der Reformation

The society of the Reformation and its traditional model of the three estates (education, defence, and those engaged in agriculture or trades; nobility, clergy, and peasantry) was set in motion from 1520/21 as lay people of both sexes, peasants, knights, clergy, townspeople, and the nobility saw themselves called upon to 'change' the existing order. The dynamics of the early Reformation ended in the Peasants' War.

Born 1962; studied Protestant Theology and History; 1990 doctorate; 1994 habilitation; 1996-2000 Chair of Church History at the LMU Munich; Professor of Church History at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Göttingen; Abbot of Bursfelde; Academic Director of the State and University Library of Göttingen.