Emidio Campi (born 30 September 1943) is a
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historian. As a church historian, he is a specialist in the Reformation in Italy and Switzerland, and has researched and published articles on John Calvin, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Huldrich Zwingli, Heinrich Bullinger and other reformers.
Life
He was born on 30 September 1943.
[http://www.irg.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:251c7563-efc5-4f18-a164-a2d4b5da0c24/campi_cv.pdf ] He is married with four children.
Career
He attended the
University of Tübingen and the
University of Zurich.
He is currently the
Emeritus Professor of Church History at the
University of Zurich,.
and a director of the
Institute for the History of the Swiss Reformation His specialist area of research is the
Protestant reformation. Campi retired on 1 August 2009, following which he was undertook various positions as visiting professor in
Montreal,
Beirut,
Buenos Aires,
Lincoln (Nebraska)
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,
Grand Rapids (Michigan),
New York City,
Genoa,
Modena
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and
Seoul.
Distinctions
He is one of the world's leading scholars of the Church, and particularly the Reformation (along with
Peter Opitz and Christian Moser and
Herman Selderhuis), and has lectured extensively on the Reformation
and those who drove it, for instance,
Arnold of Brescia
Arnold of Brescia ( 1090 – June 1155), also known as Arnaldus ( it, Arnaldo da Brescia), an Italian canon regular from Lombardy, called on the Church to renounce property-ownership and participated in the failed Commune of Rome of 1144†...
, and
Luther.
Notably, he has suggested that the sixteenth-century
Swiss Reformers Huldrych Zwingli and
John Calvin
John Calvin (; frm, Jehan Cauvin; french: link=no, Jean Calvin ; 10 July 150927 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system ...
were advocates of a
Social market economy; for example, Calvin, Campi says, "would have decisively combated every system that takes social injustice as a given, because in his eyes, social injustice is an offense to the Creator."
Bibliography
His books include:
* ''Architect of Reformation: An Introduction to
Heinrich Bullinger, 1504-1575 '' (in 257 libraries according to WorldCat )
* ''Peter Martyr Vermigli : humanism, republicanism, reformation'' Geneve : Droz, 2002
* ''Scholarly Knowledge: Textbooks In Early Modern Europe '' Genève : Droz, 2008.
* ''Shifting Patterns of Reformed Tradition'' Göttingen : Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht, 2014.
* ''A Companion to the Swiss Reformation '' Leiden : Brill, [2016
* ''Johannes Calvin Und Die Kulturelle Pragekraft Des Protestantismus ''
* ''Heinrich Bullinger, Life - Thought - Influence'' (editor) Zürich : Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2007.
References
External links
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1943 births
Living people
20th-century Swiss historians
Swiss historians of religion
Academic staff of the University of Zurich