Caroline Litzenberger
American historian (1942–2025)
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Caroline Litzenberger (née Caroline J. Wiles; November 2, 1942 – October 27, 2025) was an American historian, author, Episcopal priest,[1] and educator. She specialized in the history of the early-modern England.[2]
November 2, 1942
Portland State University (MA),
Trinity College, Cambridge (Ph.D.)
Caroline Litzenberger | |
|---|---|
| Born | Caroline J. Wiles November 2, 1942 Tacoma, Washington, U.S. |
| Died | October 27, 2025 (aged 82) Clackamas, Oregon, U.S. |
| Education | University of Washington (B.S.) Portland State University (MA), Trinity College, Cambridge (Ph.D.) |
| Occupations | Historian, author, educator, computer programmer, Episcopal priest |
| Partner | Janet Plog |
| Children | 2 |
Early life and education
Caroline Litzenberger was born on November 2, 1942, in Tacoma, Washington.[3] Her parents were Luther Theodore Wiles and Barbara Patricia More Wiles.[3] She attended Gig Harbor High School from where she graduated in 1960.[3]
Litzenberger completed a B.S. degree at the University of Washington in mathematics with concentration in probability and statistics, and a minor in history in 1964.[3] She received a M.A. degree in 1989 from Portland State University;[3] and a Ph.D. in 1993 at Trinity College, Cambridge in England.[3]
Career and late life
In her early career, Litzenberger worked as a computer programmer for Boeing in Seattle starting in 1964.[3][4] She later worked as a systems analyst for the Port of Portland in the 1980s.[4]
Litzenberger was a professor at West Virginia University in Morgantown from 1994 until 1999.[3] In 2002, she became an associate professor of history at the Portland State University in Portland.[3]
In January 2000, she became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[3]
She was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church.[3]
Litzenberger died of multiple myeloma and complications of rheumatoid arthritis on 27 October 2025, in Clackamas, Oregon.[1]
Selected publications
- The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540–1580. Cambridge University Press. 1997. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511582011. ISBN 978-0-521-47545-7. OCLC 36343258.[5][6][7][8]
- Litzenberger, Caroline (1998) [1997]. "The Coming of Protestantism to Elizabethan Tewkesbury". In Collinson, Patrick; Craig, John (eds.). The Reformation in English Towns, 1500–1640. London: Macmillan Education UK. pp. 79–93. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-26832-0_5. ISBN 978-1-350-48782-6. OCLC 1474907474.[9][10]
- "Local responses to changes in religious policy based on evidence from Gloucestershire wills (1540–1580)". Continuity and Change. 8 (3): 417–439. December 1993. doi:10.1017/S0268416000002174. ISSN 0268-4160.
- "Richard Cheyney, Bishop of Gloucester: An Infidel in Religion?". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 25 (3): 567–584. September 1, 1994. doi:10.2307/2542634. ISSN 0361-0160.