Robert W. Scribner
Robert William Scribner (9 June 1941, in Sydney – 29 January 1998, in Arlington, Massachusetts) was an Australian historian. Scribner held bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Sydney. After writing his Ph.D. in 1970, he completed a study on the Reformation in Erfurt, published in Past & Present (University of London). His first teaching assignment followed at the Portsmouth Polytechnic. From 1979 to 1981 he taught at King's College London. Subsequently, Scribner taught as a fellow at Clare College, where he became one of the founders of early modern research, along with Patrick Collinson  and Peter Burke. In 1996, he was appointed to the Department of Religious History at Harvard University. His main focus was the German-speaking Reformation. For academic teaching he translated many sources about the Peasants' War in Germany into English, concluding with "The German Peasants' War. A history in documents" (Humanities Press International, 1991).