Spielman, John P.
SPIELMAN, John P.
SPIELMAN, John P. American, b. 1930. Genres: History. Career: University of Wisconsin, Madison, teaching assistant, 1952-53, 1955-56; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, instructor, 1957-59; Haverford College, Haverford, PA, assistant professor, 1959-66, associate professor, 1966-69, dean of the college, 1966-68, chair of history department, 1968-71, 1977-80, 1985-89, professor of history, 1969-96, Audrey Dusseau Memorial Professor in the Humanities, 1983-96, now retired. External examiner at Swarthmore College, 1960-61, and Wesleyan University, 1973, 1976, 1981; University of Vienna, instructor at the Institute of European Studies, 1963-64; lecturer in Vienna and at the University of Helsinki and the University of Jyvaskyla; Bryn Mawr College, instructor, 1965-66; Haverford College-Bryn Mawr College, acting chair of German department, 1992. Publications: (with S.T. Miller) Cristobal de Rojas y Spinola, Cameralist and Irenecist, 1625-1694, 1962; (with G. Salamon) Quellen und Darstellungen aus deutscher Geschichte, 1968; (with M. Gutwirth and M. Gutwirth) Sources et reflets de l'histoire de France, 1972; Leopold I of Austria, 1977; (trans. and author of intro) H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, The Adventures of Simplicissumus, 1981; The City and the Crown, Vienna and the Imperial Court, 1600-1740, 1993. Contributor to periodicals. Author of papers presented at conferences and colloquiums. Address: History Department, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041, U.S.A.