Daniel Stolzenberg
Education
- Ph.D., History, Stanford University, 2004
- M.A., History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, 1998
- B.A., History, UC Berkeley, 1995
About
Daniel Stolzenberg is a historian of knowledge, specializing in early modern Europe. In addition to his primary appointment in the History Department, he is affiliated with the program in Science and Technology Studies and is a member of the Graduate Group in the Study of Religion. He co-directs the UC Davis Early Science Workshop.
This page is about the the twenty-first century historian. For the seventeenth-century Bohemian alchemist-poet, see Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg.
Research Focus
Professor Stolzenberg studies the history of science and scholarship from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Although his research ranges across Western Europe, he has a particular interest in Rome and Italy. His book Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity won the ACHA Marraro Prize for Italian History and was named a notable book of 2013 by Gizmodo. His next book, The Holy Office in the Republic of Letters, will look at scientific communication and religious conflict in the seventeenth century by investigating secret collaborations between Dutch booksellers and the Roman Inquisition. His other areas of research include the history of orientalist scholarship and early modern ethnography. He is also preparing an edition of a pornographic Jesuit confession manual from Counter-Reformation Prague.
Selected Publications
- Stolzenberg, D. (2013) Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity, University of Chicago Press.
- Stolzenberg, D. (2016) “A spanner and his works: Books, letters, and scholarly communication networks in early modern Europe,” in For the Sake of Learning: Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton (Eds.) Blair and Goeing, Leiden: Brill, 157–172.
- Stolzenberg, D. (2015) “Les langues orientales et les racines de l’orientalisme académique: une enquête préliminaire," XVIIe siècle 268: 409–426.
- Stolzenberg, D. (2013) "Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx," Public Domain Review.
- Stolzenberg, D. (2012) "John Spencer and the Perils of Sacred Philology," Past and Present 214: 129–163.
Teaching
Professor Stolzenberg teaches courses on early modern European and world history, the history of science and technology, intellectual history, and history of religion. In Fall 2018 he will teach HIS/STS 2, Introduction to the History of Science and Technology and HIS 133, European Thought and Culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
Awards
- Howard R. Marraro Prize for best book in Italian History, American Catholic Historical Association, 2014
- University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2013–14
- Hellman Fellow, 2010-2011