Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Nippold

Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Nippold

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

Life

Nippold came from an Evangelical-Catholic mixed marriage. His father was Friedrich Wilhelm Nippold († 1882) and his mother was Helena van Koetsveld († 1860) from Delft. He grew up in the diaspora situation of Rhenish Dutch Protestantism. After attending the school in his birthplace and high school, he began studying in the fall of 1856, which he completed in Halle , Bonn , Amsterdam and Leiden . In 1860 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Tübingen. From 1861 to 1863 he went on an oriental trip to Egypt and Palestine.

Habilitated in Heidelberg since 1865 , he obtained a licentiate in theology there in the same year and was appointed associate professor in the theological faculty there in 1867. After receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Leiden in 1870 , he was appointed full professor of church history at the theological faculty in Bern in 1871 . In 1884 he changed as Karl von Hase's successor to the chair of church history at the University of Jena and taught there until his retirement in 1907. In the summer semester of 1887 and in the winter semester of 1903/04 he was the rector of the Alma Mater .

Act

After early work on the history of the Dutch Reformation , Nippold later dealt almost exclusively with the church history of his own century. Throughout his life, he took a stand on current church policy issues. His main work, the third edition of the Handbook of Recent Church History, is strongly 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 whose liberal position he continued, also as a member of the German Protestant Association . As a national liberal, he particularly fought against ultra-montanism within the Roman Catholic Church. To this end, he promoted Old Catholicism and successfully campaigned for the establishment of the Christian Catholic faculty in Bern. In 1886 he was one of the founders of the Evangelical Union to protect German-Protestant interests and was a member of the central board until 1906 as well as one of the most industrious speakers and authors. He was a confidante of Grand Duke Carl Alexander (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) and the Prussian Prince and later Emperor Friedrich III.

family

Children came from his marriage to Auguste von Wahl (* 1835 Dorpat; † 1903), daughter of Otto von Wahl auf Kawast and Elisabeth von Krüdener. One knows:

• Otto Friedrich Richard (1864–1938) became an international lawyer
• Auguste Helene Elisabeth Nippold (born August 5, 1869 in Heidelberg) married on June 10, 1891 in Jena with the later superintendent in Calbe Oskar Friedrich Kohlschmidt (born January 29, 1865 in Rothenstein; † September 14, 1935 in Dorndorf / Saale) . The son Werner Kohlschmidt comes from the marriage .
• WCA Nippold Literat in Borken near Kassel

After Augustes death, Nippold married Marie Berta b. Möhling (1847–1922), the widow of pastor Karl Schumacher.

Works (selection)

• Heinrich Niclaes and the House of Love. A monographic attempt from the sect history of the Reformation period. In: Zeitschrift für die Historische Theologie 32 (1862), pp. 323–402; 473-563
• David Ioris of Delft: his life, his teaching and his sect: a monograph on church history . [Sl], [1863]
• The Jesuit Order from its restoration to the present day , Mannheim 1867
• Handbook of Latest Church History . Elberfeld 1867; 3rd ed. 1880–83, 5 vols.
• Church political review in Advent 1868 . Mannheim 1869
• Egypt's position in the history of religion and culture . Berlin 1869
• A view from Worms to Jerusalem . Mannheim 1869
• Which roads lead to Rome? Historical Illumination of Roman Illusions About the Successes 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 view of life based on Rothe's letters , 2 vols., Wittenberg 1873/1874 (2nd ed. 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 the historical appreciation of the religion of Jesus . Ten issues, Bern 1884–1889
• Catholic or Jesuit? : three historical studies . Leipzig 1888
• The Christian Nobility of the German Nation: A Review and Outlook on its Past and Future . Berlin 1893
• The theological individual school in relation to the Protestant Church . 3 vol., Braunschweig 1893–1900
• The Jesuit writers of the present day in Germany , Leipzig 1895
• Small writings on the inner history of Catholicism . 2 vol., Jena 1899
• Döllinger as a reformer of Protestant theology . Berlin: Wiegandt, Schotte, 1890
• The German song of Christ 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 Union and its leadership by Count Wintzingerode . Leipzig 1906.
• Leading personalities at the time of the foundation of the German Empire. Berlin 1911

editor

• Christian Carl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen . From his letters and from his own memory, portrayed by his widow , 3 volumes, Leipzig 1868–1871.
• Karl Rudolf Hagenbach : Church history from the oldest time to the 19th century . 3 volumes, Leipzig 1885–1887
• Richard Rothe: Collected lectures and treatises from the last years of his life . Elberfeld 1886
• Memories from the life of General Field Marshal Hermann von Boyen . Leipzig 1889–1890
• Johann Anton Theiner and Augustin Theiner : Introduction of the forced celibacy among the Christian clergy and its consequences . Verlag der Hofbuchdruckerei, Altenburg 1828, revised by Friedrich Nippold 1893

literature

• Andreas Lindt : The faculty was founded in 1874 . In: One Hundred Years of the Christ Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bern , 1974, pp. 2–12.
• Martin Friedrich :  Nippold, Friedrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 950-952.
• Armin Müller-Dreier: Denomination in politics, society and culture of the empire. The Evangelical Bund 1886-1914 . Gütersloh 1998.
• Stefan Gerber: The University of Jena 1850-1914 . In: Traditions, Breaks, Changes: the University of Jena 1850-1995 , 2009, pp. 197-200.
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon, Vol. 2: 1803-1932 . Springer, Wiesbaden 2. [revised. u. extended] edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-26396-6 , p. 571 f.
• Levens report from Dr. Friedrich Nippold. In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. Leiden 1919, ( Dutch online )

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Nippold in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rudolf Dellsperger : Nippold, Friedrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Nippold's estate in ThULB Jena