Doris and Peter Bietenholz, Professor Emeritus of History, relax at home.

Bio/Historical Note: Peter Bietenholz was born 7 January 1933 in Basel, Switzerland. He received his PhD from the University of Basel in 1958. After having taught in Sudan, Bietenholz came to Saskatoon in 1963, joining the faculty of the Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, iHe became a full professor in 1970 and servied as department head from 1974 to 1977.. In 1996 the U of S awarded him an earned Doctor of Letters degree in recognition of the excellence of his scholarship on Renaissance humanism generally and on Erasmus specifically. From 1970-1986 he was on the editorial board for The Collected Works of Erasmus and annotated several volumes of Erasmus' correspondence within that series. He was also the editor of Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation (3 vols, 1985-1987). Other books authored or edited by Bietenholz include Basle and France in the sixteenth century; the Basle humanists and printers in their contacts with Franco-phone culture (1971); Thesaurus de la Littérature Interdite au XVIe Siècle (1996); History and Fabula: Myths and Legends in Historical Thought From Antiquity To the Modern Age (1994); and In Haereticis Coërcendis Quatenus Progredi Liceat : Poems-Correspondence / Mino Celsi (1982). He has also lectured widely and is the author of many articles and chapters in books. He retired in 2000 and was named Professor Emeritus.