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Dr. Paul W. Schroeder
Dr. Paul W. Schroeder is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, specializing in late-sixteenth- to twentieth-century European intern...view moreDr. Paul W. Schroeder is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, specializing in late-sixteenth- to twentieth-century European international politics, Central Europe, and the theory of history.
He was born on February 23, 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Rupert H. Schroeder and Elfrieda Koch. He attended Concordia Seminary (graduated 1951), Texas Christian University, and the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his Ph.D. in 1958. He was an associate professor of history at Concordia Senior College from 1958 to 1963, after which he was hired at the University of Illinois.
Schroeder has been a regular contributor to the magazine The American Conservative.
He received the 1956 Beveridge Award for the best manuscript on American history submitted by a beginning historian. Additionally, he has been the recipient of a number of other academic awards, including the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Prize (1962), Queen Prize (1980) and Jubilee Professor, both from the University of Illinois (1992), and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Valparaiso University (1993).
He has also received a number of fellowships, including Fulbright Scholar in Austria (1956-1957), Senior Fellow, Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford (1984) and Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow, United States Institute of Peace (1992-1993).
Dr. Schroeder is the author of The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 (1958); Metternich’s Diplomacy at Its Zenith, 1820-1823 (1962); Austria, Great Britain, and the Crimean War: The Destruction of the European Concert (1972); and The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 (1994).view less