Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, 1954-

Richard Holzapfel attended Brigham Young University, Hebrew Union College, and the University of California, Irvine, emphasizing Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish History, American History, and Nineteenth Century American Religious History. He came to BYU as an assistant professor in 1993, teaching in the Church History, Ancient Scripture, and History departments, including the Honors sections of the Doctrine and Covenants and the New Testament. He taught at the BYU Jerusalem Center from 1997 to 1998. He currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the "Religious Educator", a publication of the Religious Studies Center at BYU.

In 1882 Elmer and Ben Underwood set up an office on Ottawa, Kansas to distribute Eastern photographers' stereographs to the Western market with door-to-door salesmen. By 1891, they had established a plant in Ottawa to manufature stereo photographic cameras, stereo views and stereoscopes; moved their headquarters to New York City, opened branch offices in Baltimore, New York, and Liverpool. By 1901, Underwood and Underwood was manufacturing packaged sets of stereo views--25,000 a day (more than seven million a a year), and 300,000 stereoscopes a year.

See Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, "Stereographs and Stereotypes: A 1904 View of Mormonism," Journal of Mormon History 18 (Fall 1992): 155-76.

Richard Holzapfel (1954- ) currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the "Religious Educator," a publication of the Religious Studies Center at BYU.

Richard Holzapfel was born in 17 September 1954. He later attended BYU, Hebrew Union College, and the University of California, Irvine (B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.) emphasizing Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish History, Ancient History, American History, and Nineteenth Century American Religious History. He married Jeni Broberg in 1978 and is the father of five children. He came to BYU as an assistant professor in 1993, teaching in the Church History, Ancient Scripture, and History departments, including the Honors sections of the Doctrine and Covenants and New Testament. He taught at the BYU Jerusalem Center from 1997 through 1998. Dr. Holzapfel currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the "Religious Educator," a publication of the Religious Studies Center at BYU.