Tryntje Helfferich
Associate Professor, History
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B.A. 1991 Pomona College, M.A. 1996 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Ph.D. 2003 University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor Helfferich specializes in early modern German history and the history of ideas, with a particular focus on the intersection of religion and politics in the seventeenth century and the ways in which post-Reformation religious conflict and ideas about the German fatherland influenced or contributed to war. Her publications include The Essential Luther (Hackett, 2018); The Iron Princess: Amalia Elisabeth and the Thirty Years War (Harvard, 2013); On the Freedom of a Christian (Hackett, 2013); and The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History (Hackett, 2009).
Professor Helfferich teaches courses on world history, German history, early modern European history, the history of Christianity, and the history of warfare.