Richard L. Jensen

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Richard Louis Jensen (born 1943) [1] is an American historian who specializes in the study of the 19th-century Latter Day Saint movement in Europe and of 19th-century European Latter Day Saint immigrants in the United States. Jensen received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Utah State University and a Master of Arts degree in history from Ohio State University in 1972. [2] Among his writings are Mormons in Early Victorian Britain. [3] [4] Jensen was a research historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History during its entire existence. Jensen is one of the co-editors involved in the Joseph Smith Papers Project. He edited The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Volume 1: 1832-1839 with Dean C. Jessee and Mark Ashurst-McGee, [5] [6] [7] and The Joseph Smith Papers, Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Histories, 1831–1847 with Karen Lynn Davidson and David J. Whittaker. [8]

References

  1. Walker, Ronald W.; Whittaker, David J.; Allen, James B. (2001). Mormon History. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. p. 69. ISBN   978-0-252-02619-5.
  2. Jensen, Richard Louis (1972). Danes in the Reichstag, 1867–1881: The Activities of the Danish Deputies from North Schleswig (master's thesis). Ohio State University.
  3. Watt, Ronald (October 1, 1990). "Mormons in Early Victorian Britain Richard L. Jensen and Malcolm R. Thorp, eds". BYU Studies. 30 (4). ISSN   2167-8472.
  4. Sadler, Richard W. "Mormons in Early Victorian Britain edited by Richard L. Jensen and Malcolm R. Thorp (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989)" (PDF). Dialogue.
  5. Coens, Thomas (2009). "Review of The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Volume 1: 1832-1839". Brigham Young University Studies. 48 (3): 148–151. ISSN   0007-0106.
  6. Minkema, Kenneth P. (2010). "Review of The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Volume 1: 1832–1839. Edited by Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen". Documentary Editing.
  7. Stapley, J. (January 1, 2009). "Review: Journals, Volume 1: 1832-1839 of The Joseph Smith Papers - By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog". bycommonconsent.com. Retrieved December 31, 2025.
  8. Kelly, Donna E. (2014). "The Joseph Smith Papers, Histories, Volume 1: Joseph Smith Histories, 1832–1844 edited by Karen Lynn Davidson, David J. Whittaker, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, and: The Joseph Smith Papers, Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Histories, 1831–1847 edited by Karen Lynn Davidson, Richard L. Jensen, and David J. Whittaker (review)". Ohio History. 121 (1): 133–135. doi:10.1353/ohh.2014.0017. ISSN   1934-6042.