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.

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[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]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.der-nachfolger.ch/content/e161/e407/e409/BullingeralsTheologe.pdf Heinrich Bullinger als Theologe.
  2. Web site: CURRICULUM VITAE . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170118225547/http://www.irg.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:251c7563-efc5-4f18-a164-a2d4b5da0c24/campi_cv.pdf . January 18, 2017.
  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. 2017-01-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20170113143645/http://www.bergamosera.com/cms/2017/01/12/bergamo-celebra-i-500-anni-della-riforma-protestante/. dead.
  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.

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