Max Engammare#
| Membership Number: | 3635 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995 - present Director of Editions Droz, Geneva
- 1995 - present Associate Research Fellow, Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, Genève
- 2010 - 2016 Endowed Fellowship from the Swiss National Fund for Research, for research on Protestant preaching in XVIth Century Switzerland
- 1996 - 2010 Endowed Fellowship from the Swiss National Fund for Research, for editing Calvin's unpublished sermons
- 2002 - 2008 President of FISIER (International Federation of Societies and Institutes working on the Renaissance)
Fields of Scholarship
- History of the Reformation
- Editing Calvin
- Preaching and preachers in the Protestant Reformation
- History of XVIth Century France
- History of the Bible and Bible illustration
- History of the Book
- Computing of time: clocks, calendars, almanachs, people's notion of time and punctuality in the Renaissance
Honours and Awards
- 2012 and 2008 Invited to give a lecture to members of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris (an honor rarely bestowed on non-Academicians)
- 2011 Fellowship at Harvard University for research at the Houghton Library
- 2007 Elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the Académie royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques
