Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Nippold

Frederick William Franz Nippold ( born September 15, 1838 in Emmerich; † August 3, 1918 in Oberursel ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Nippold came from a Protestant-Catholic intermarriage and grew up in the diaspora situation of the Rhenish Protestantism. After studying in Halle, Bonn, Amsterdam and Leiden 1860-1863 he made a trip to the Orient. Habilitated in 1865 in Heidelberg, he was appointed associate there in 1867, 1871 in Bern to full professor of theology. In 1884 he became successor to Karl von Hase's kirchengeschichtlichem chair in Jena where he taught until his retirement in 1907. During the winter semester 1903/ 04 he served as rector.

The international law Otfried Nippold (1864-1938) was his son.

Work and significance

After early work on the Dutch Reformation history Nippold later employed almost exclusively with the church history of his own century. He took his life on current church political issues. His main work, the third edition of the Handbook of the latest church history is highly subjective in its judgments, but has contemporary historical source value. Nippold saw himself as a student of Richard Rothe, whose first biography he wrote and his liberal position he continued as a member of the German Protestant Association. As a National Liberal he fought in particular ultramontanism within the Roman Catholic Church. To this end, he promoted the Old Catholicism and successfully lobbied for the establishment of the Christian Catholic Faculty in Berne. In 1886 he was among the founders of the Evangelical Alliance to safeguard the German - Protestant interests and was until 1906 a member of the Central Committee and one of the most prolific speakers and writers. He was a confidant of the Grand Duke Carl Alexander (Sachsen -Weimar -Eisenach ) and the Prussian prince and future Emperor Friedrich III.

Writings (selection )

  • Heinrich Niclaes and the house of love. A monographic attempt from the sects - history of the Reformation period .. In: Journal for the Historical Theology 32 (1862 ), pp. 323-402; 473-563
  • David Ioris from Delft: his life, his teachings and his sect: a church historical monograph. [ S. L. ]
  • The Jesuit order of his recovery up to the present, Mannheim 1867
  • Manual of the latest church history. Elberfeld in 1867; 3rd edition, 1880-83, 5 vols
  • Church Political Rundschau in Advent 1868. Mannheim 1869
  • Egypt 's position in the religious and cultural history. Berlin 1869
  • A view from Worms to Jerusalem. Mannheim 1869
  • Which roads lead to Rome? Historical lights of the Roman illusions About the achievements of propaganda. Heidelberg 1870
  • The Old Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Utrecht. Heidelberg 1872
  • The parables of Jesus and the kingdom of God in the present. Berlin 1870
  • Richard Rothe. A Christian life image due to the letters Rothe 's designed, 2 vols Wittenberg 1873/1874 (2nd edition 1877)
  • The Roman Catholic Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Leipzig 1877
  • The theory of the separation of church and state. Bern 1881
  • For historical appreciation of the religion of Jesus. Ten books, Bern 1884-1889
  • Catholic or Jesuit? : Three contemporary historical studies. Leipzig 1888
  • The Christian Nobility of the German Nation: a review and outlook of its past and future. Berlin 1893
  • The theological individual schools in relation to the Protestant Church. 3 vols, Brunswick 1893-1900
  • The Jesuit writer of the present in Germany, Leipzig 1895
  • Small writings on the internal history of Catholicism. 2 vols, Jena 1899
  • Dollinger as a reformer of Protestant theology. Berlin: Wiegandt, Scotsman, 1890
  • The German Christ song of the 19th century. Leipzig 1903
  • From the life of the first two German emperors and their wives. Research and memories, Berlin 1906
  • The first two decades of the Evangelical Alliance and its management by Count Wintzingerode. Leipzig 1906.
  • Leading figures at the time of the founding of the German Empire. Berlin 1911

As editor

  • Christian Carl Josias, Baron von Bunsen. From his letters and its own recollection described by his widow, 3 volumes, Leipzig from 1868 to 1871.
  • Karl Rudolf Hagenbach: Church history from the earliest times until the 19th century. 3 volumes, Leipzig 1885-1887
  • Richard Rothe: Collected papers and treatises of his last years. Elberfeld 1886
  • Memoirs of the life of General - Field Marshal Hermann von Boyen. Leipzig 1889-1890
  • Johann Anton Theiner and Augustin Theiner: Introduction of forced celibacy in the Christian clergy and their consequences. Publisher of Hofbuchdruckerei, Altenburg 1828 revision by Friedrich Nippold 1893
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