Charles Edward Trinkaus

Background

Charles Edward Trinkaus was born on October 25, 1911, in Brooklyn. He was the son of Charles Edward and Frances (Krueger) Trinkaus.

Education

In 1933, Tinkaus received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. In 1940, he received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Columbia.

Career

Trinkaus was a professor of history at Sarah Lawrence College from 1936 to 1970, and at the University of Michigan from 1970 until 1982. His first book, Adversity’s Noblemen: The Italian Humorists on Happiness, was published in 1940, and reprinted in 1965. That work was followed by his 1970 two-volume piece In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought, his Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Religion, which he edited with Heiko A. Oberman, and his 1999 book Collected Works of Erasmus: Controversies. He was named a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1965, and of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1972.

Achievements

• Charles Edward Trinkaus has been listed as a noteworthy historian and educator. He was an avid scholar of the Renaissance throughout his career, and wrote four books that examine that time period.

Works

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  • Renaissance Transformations of Late Medieval Thought (Variorum Collected Studies)

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    1999
  • The Poet as Philosopher: Petrarch and the Formation of Renaissance Consciousness 1979
  • In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought 1970
  • The Scope of Renaissance Humanism 1984

Membership

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American History Association, American Society Reformation Research, Medieval Academy American, Renaissance Society American (president 1973-1976).

Connections

On March 1, 1975, Trinkaus married Pauline Moffitt Watts. He had two children: John Aaron and Peter Mark.

Father:

Charles Edward Trinkaus

Mother:

Frances (Krueger) Trinkaus

Spouse:

Pauline Moffitt Watts

Son:

Peter Mark Trinkaus

Son:

John Aaron Trinkaus (deceased)