Emidio Campi Explained

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,. 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)
• 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 == {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.irg.uzh.ch/en/personen/campi.html}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Campi, Emidio}} [[Category:1943 births]]

Notes and References

1. http://www.der-nachfolger.ch/content/e161/e407/e409/BullingeralsTheologe.pdf Heinrich Bullinger als Theologe.
2. http://www.irg.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:251c7563-efc5-4f18-a164-a2d4b5da0c24/campi_cv.pdf
3. News: Pei News / Germania, il 2 marzo conferenza di Emidio Campi sull'influenza di Lutero in Italia. 2017-02-28. ilVelino. 2017-07-01. it.
4. News: Bergamo celebra i 500 anni della Riforma protestante. 2017-01-12. Bergamosera, news e notizie da Bergamo, Italia e esteri. 2017-07-01. it-IT.
5. Web site: La Riforma Protestante compie 500 anni: Bergamo riflette sulla sua attualità - Bergamo News. 2017-01-08. BergamoNews. 2017-07-01.
6. http://www.fondazionesancarlo.it/fondazione/Viewer?cmd=dettagliopersona&id=166 Emidio Campi.
7. Web site: GOOGLE TRANSLATE - Google Search. www.google.co.uk.
8. Web site: The Amazingly Gracious Emidio Campi. 19 January 2013. wordpress.com. 17 March 2017.
9. Web site: Prosegue a Brescia la mostra "Arnaldo ritrovato". Agenzia. NEV. 14 April 2017.
10. News: In mostra il monumento di Arnaldo: così rivive il monaco eretico. Troncana. Alessandra. Corriere della Sera. 2017-07-01. it-IT.
11. News: 500 Jahre Reformation: Die Aktualität reformatorischen Denkens. B. 2017-03-06. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 2017-07-01. Berset. esrat Alain. de-CH. 0376-6829.
12. Web site: Campie, Emidio . WorldCat author listing. 1 July 2017.