Thomas A. Brady

Thomas A. Brady, Jr. is the Peder Sather Professor Emeritus of History and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the most distinguished scholars in the study of the Reformation and early modern Germany, Brady has written books on the ruling class of Strasbourg, on Jacob Sturm, the political leader of the Strasbourg reformation, and on Holy Roman imperial politics in southern Germany. His influence in the field goes far beyond his publications. Brady mentored dozens of younger scholars in his years at the University of Oregon and at Berkeley and he has been a major presence at conferences and Tagungen for decades. His connections among leading scholars in Germany, his broad intellectual interests, and his support of younger scholars on both sides of the Atlantic has done much over the last thirty years to open up the once insular fields of Reformation and early modern German history. In 1993 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in Switzerland. In 2007 he was the Heiko Oberman Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona.