Franz Wilhelm Kampschulte

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Franz Wilhelm Kampschulte (born November 12, 1831 in Wickede (Ruhr) , † December 3, 1872 in Bonn ) was a German historian .

Live and act

Like his brother Heinrich, Kampschulte was chosen early on by his wealthy parents for a spiritual career. After attending the Petrinum grammar school in Brilon and grammar schools in Paderborn and Münster, where he acquired a respectable humanistic education, he studied Catholic theology for three years at the Münster Academy . At the same time he also took history and philology . He then studied history for a year in Berlin and prepared for his doctorate in Bonn in autumn 1855 . He rejected his intention to become a high school teacher and completed his habilitation in early 1857. In the following year he was appointed extraordinary professor of history and three years later two older colleagues were assigned to the direction of the historical seminar .

The field of work of his lectures extended over the history of the Middle Ages and that of modern times. His own literary works were, with rare small exceptions accounted, from the first half of the 16th century. He wrote his dissertation with the title De G. Wicelio eiusque studiis et scriptis irenicis . Then he worked in and for himself on the subject of the historical wealth of the chosen time . Another important research topic became the history of the University of Erfurt in the age of humanism and the Reformation . The two parts of this work appeared in 1858 and 1860. They were groundbreaking for the research of the Mutian Circle of Friends and the origin of the Epistolae obscurorum virorum and thus also for the history of German humanism.

After this time he dealt with the reformer John Calvin . The first part of the three-volume work Johann Calvin; his Church and State in Geneva was printed in 1869. He described the political and religious struggles in Geneva . Then the development of Calvin as a reformer as well as his first Geneva period and his exile and return were discussed. Kampschulte wrote until his death on the second volume, in which Calvin's battle and victory in Geneva were the subject. In the third volume, the development of Calvinism into a world power was presented. Volume two was published by Walter Goetz in 1899 . Volume three, however, never appeared.

Kampschulte was considered a conscientious, level-headed and determined researcher. He suffered from a lung disease from his youth, which was the reason for his early death. A few weeks before his death, he had been working through volumes of files in the Bern archive for his Calvin research. He was friends with Franz Heinrich Reusch , whose theological views he shared, among other things he rejected the infallibility of the Pope , as it was understood at the First Vatican Council .

Kampschulte was one of the founding members of the Catholic Reading Club in Berlin in 1853, now KStV Askania-Burgundia in the KV .

Publications

  • The University of Erfurt in its relationship to humanism and the Reformation. Aalen: Scientia-Verl., 1970, Neudr. D. Trier 1858–60 digitized edition
  • Johann Calvin, his Church and State in Geneva. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1969 and 1899 (Vol. 2 ed. By Walter Goetz ) Digitized I , II

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Remarks

  1. ^ Franz Wilhelm Kampschulte: De Georgio Wicelio eiusque studiis et scriptis irenicis. Bonn 1856.
  2. ^ Franz Wilhelm Kampschulte: Johann Calvin. His Church and State in Geneva. Part 1. Leipzig 1869 ( online )
  3. ^ Franz Wilhelm Kampschulte: Johann Calvin. His Church and State in Geneva. Part 2. Leipzig 1899 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Kampschulte, Franz Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Wickede (Ruhr)
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1872
Place of death Bonn