Peter Bietenholz

Peter Bietenholz was born in Basel, Switzerland, and received a PhD in history from the University of Basel. He taught for four years in the University of Khartoum in Sudan, and subsequently for 37 years in the University of Saskatchewan. He also was a visiting professor at Kwansai Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan, and a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

His academic interests, and consequently his research and publications, include printing and publishing in the 16th century; Erasmus of Rotterdam and his humanist friends and forerunners; the Radical Reformation, especially the Antitrinitarian Socinians; Europeans travelling to, or living in, the Near and Middle East; and attempts undertaken in various ages to recognize (or blur) the difference between history and historical myth.

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