Paul F. Grendler

Paul F. Grendler is an American historian of the Italian renaissance.

Biography

He was born on May 24, 1936 in Armstrong, Iowa.
His grandparents were Polish American immigrants.

Education

He studied at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He also attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Oberlin College.
He received a BA degree with a major in history from Oberlin College in 1959.
He obtained his MA degree in sixteenth-century French history in 1962 from the University of Wisconsin.

Career

He worked as a lecturer of history at the University of Pittsburgh from 1963 to 1964.
He is currently a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto.

Awards and honours

He has received the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association.
He has received the Roland H. Bainton Prize.
He received the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.
In 2014 he received the Premio Internazionale Galileo Galilei.