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Abraham Friesen, Internationally Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbra, 1967-2004. BA University of Manitoba , 1958. Studied at the University of Göttingen, Germany, 1957-1958 on a German Government fellowship. MA University of Manitoba , 1962. PhD Stanford University , 1967. Wrote the dissertation at the Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany, 1965-1967 on a Canada Council Fellowship, 1965-1967, and a stipend from th

Friesen: Major Publications, with reviews   · “ The Marxist Interpretation of the Reformation ,” Archive for Reformation History, 1973, 34-54. Requested by the editor of Soundings, Sallie Te Selle but published in the Archive for Reformation History because, as Editor Te Selle observed: “ As soon as I got into it a few pages [I realized] that it  is magnificent – but not for Soundings . . .”   · Book: Reformation and Utopia: the Marxist Interpretation of the Reformation and

All my research and writing since my first publication in 1965 have been leading me to what I hope will be my final study. Half completed before I began the present study, it treats of the 1523 Nuremberg Imperial Edict that not only politicized the Protestant Reformation, but – while mandating the preaching of the Gospel – forbade any changes to be made in the practices of the Christian faith and church servicers. It was for this reason that reformers like Martin Bucer and po