Paul’s awards included a Fulbright (1956–57), a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1973), and the accolade of which he was most proud, designation as University of Illinois Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1992). Unsurprisingly, given both his scholarship and his dedication to the profession, he served on many councils, associations, and editorial boards, including the AHA’s Research Division and the American Historical Review Board of Editors. Fourteen of his most influential articles and book chapters were collected in Systems, Stability, and Statecraft: Essays on the International History of Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Press, 1972) and The Transformation of European Politics, 1763 –1848 (Clarendon Press, 1992), which historian Hamish Scott called the “book that keeps on giving” with its “layers of meaning.” This groundbreaking study demonstrated Paul’s unparalleled expertise in the history of international relations and generated numerous conferences and speaking engagements, a forum on the Vienna System in the American Historical Review (1992), and a special edition of the International History Review (1994). of Texas Press, 1962), which was awarded the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Prize Austria, Great Britain, and the Crimean War: The Destruction of the European Concert (Cornell Univ. Beveridge Award Metternich’s Diplomacy at Its Zenith, 1820 –1823 (Univ. Press, 1958), which won the AHA’s Albert J. Many of his books were recognized for their excellence: The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 (Cornell Univ. His thoroughly documented, rigorously argued, and innovative scholarship fostered both admiration and scholarly debate. In a sermon many years later, he claimed he was “not unfrocked, just unsuited.” Yet one cannot write a remembrance of Paul without acknowledging his great faith and commitment to the Lutheran Church and his family.Īll who knew Paul as colleague, professor, and mentor recognized a powerful intellect, a meticulous and innovative researcher, a highly productive author who transformed his field, and a kind and warmhearted man with an underappreciated sense of humor. He was ordained as a Lutheran pastor, but he left the ministry in 1954.
She survives him, along with their two daughters, Jan and Susan, two brothers, eight grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren. Louis, where he met his wife of 70 years, Violet Doolin. Schroeder, professor emeritus of European history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, passed away in State College, Pennsylvania, on December 6, 2020.īorn in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1927, he initially followed in his father’s footsteps by attending seminary in St.
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