The Italian Ministry for University and Research authorized the University of Trento to award to professor Heinz Schilling the Honoris causa graduation in Historical science, promoted by the Humanities and approved by the Academic Senate.
“Professor Heinz Schilling”, according to Gustavo Corni, who has submitted the proposal at the Deparment’s Council, “is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant European historians of modern times, specialized in the topic of “confesionalization”. Schilling focuses on the intense network of mutual influence which marked politics and religion in the modern times. Schilling developed his researches, in cooperation with the Italian-German Historical Institute of the Bruno Kessler Foundation”.
The awarding ceremony will take place on 13 November 2014 at the Department of Humanities (via Tommaso Gar, 14). The national first view of the Italian translation of the Biography on Luther by Schilling will take place in the days immediately before. The book will be presented by the Bruno Kessler Foundation through its Italian-German Institute, on 11 November (via Santa Croce, 77).
“The biography, published in 2012, is titled “Martin Luther. Rebell in einer Zeit des Umbruchs”, a great success in Germany. It is the last element of the continuous work of Schilling, protestant but grown up in the very catholic Koln, on the connection between religion and politics”. The commentators remarked that the biography cleans the personality of Luther from the criticism which emerged during the religious fights of the sixteenth century and then accepted in the nationalist historiography”.