Richard Kieckhefer (born 1946[1]) is an American medievalist, religious historian, scholar of church architecture, and author.
[2] After an undergraduate education at Saint Louis University, Kieckhefer earned a PhD in history from the University of Texas in 1972, spending a year in Munich at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Institute with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
[7] His Magic in the Middle Ages, first published in 1989, has been translated into Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Italian, and Greek, and is forthcoming in Turkish, Portuguese, and Korean.
He was President of the American Society of Church History in 1997 and of the Societas Magica from 1995 to 2004.
In addition to the DAAD, his research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation,[8] the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.