Emidio Campi

Emidio Campi (born 30 September 1943) is a Swiss 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.^[1]

Life

He was born on 30 September 1943.^[2] He is married with four children.^[2]

Career

He attended the University of Tübingen and the University of Zurich.^[2] He is currently the Emeritus Professor of Church History at the University of Zurich,.^[2] and a director of the Institute for the History of the Swiss Reformation^[3][4] His specialist area of research is the Protestant reformation.^[5] Campi retired on 1 August 2009, following which he was undertook various positions as visiting professor in Montreal, Beirut, Buenos Aires, Lincoln (Nebraska), Grand Rapids (Michigan), New York City, Genoa, Modena and Seoul.^[6]

Distinctions

He is one of the world's leading scholars of the Church,^[7] and particularly the Reformation (along with Peter Opitz and Christian Moser and Herman Selderhuis),^[8] and has lectured extensively on the Reformation^[5] and those who drove it, for instance, Arnold of Brescia,^[9][10] and Luther.^[3] Notably, he has suggested that the sixteenth-century Swiss Reformers Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin 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."^[11]

Bibliography

His books include:^[12]

• Architect of Reformation: An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger, 1504-1575 (in 257 libraries according to WorldCat )^[12]
• 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

1. Heinrich Bullinger als Theologe. In: Annex. Magazin der Reformierten Presse, 20/2004, S. 3–6 (archiviert in: Der Nachfolger. Kirchlicher Informationsdienst der Evangelisch-reformierten Landeskirche des Kantons Zürich; PDF; 395 kB).
2. http://www.irg.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:251c7563-efc5-4f18-a164-a2d4b5da0c24/campi_cv.pdf^{[bare URL PDF]}
3. "Pei News / Germania, il 2 marzo conferenza di Emidio Campi sull'influenza di Lutero in Italia". ilVelino (in Italian). 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
4. "Bergamo celebra i 500 anni della Riforma protestante". Bergamosera, news e notizie da Bergamo, Italia e esteri (in Italian). 2017-01-12. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
5. "La Riforma Protestante compie 500 anni: Bergamo riflette sulla sua attualità - Bergamo News". BergamoNews. 2017-01-08. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
6. Emidio Campi. 2016-09-20 at the Wayback Machine In: Website der Fondazione Collegio San Carlo.
7. "GOOGLE TRANSLATE - Google Search". www.google.co.uk.
8. "The Amazingly Gracious Emidio Campi". wordpress.com. 19 January 2013. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
9. NEV, Agenzia (14 April 2017). "Prosegue a Brescia la mostra "Arnaldo ritrovato"".
10. Troncana, Alessandra. "In mostra il monumento di Arnaldo: così rivive il monaco eretico". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-07-01.
11. B; Berset, esrat Alain (2017-03-06). "500 Jahre Reformation: Die Aktualität reformatorischen Denkens". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
12. "Campie, Emidio". WorldCat author listing. Retrieved 1 July 2017.

External links

• Official website