Church historian
As church historians are historians of the Department of Church History called. Most of these historians are theologians by training .
The foundation of the modern scientific church historiography came from the Magdeburg Centuria , which appeared from 1559 , initiated by the theologian Matthias Flacius . The main processor was Johannes Wigand .
Cardinal Cesare Baronio is considered the father of modern Roman Catholic church history , who gave lectures at the oratorio meetings on behalf of St. Philip Neri , which later became the standard work of the Annales , which can be seen as an alternative to the Centuries.
The authors of the late antique and medieval “church stories”, who are also often referred to as church historians, are not scientists in the modern sense .
Important church historians
Modern times
- Luise Abramowski
- Kurt Aland
- Giuseppe Alberigo
- Arnold Angenendt
- Claus Arnold
- Gottfried Arnold
- Roger Aubert
- Cesare Baronio
- Ferdinand Christian Baur
- Franz Xaver Bishop
- Heinrich Bornkamm
- Karin Bornkamm
- Martin Brecht
- Hanns Christof Brennecke
- Dominik Burkard
- Edmund Bursche
- Hans von Campenhausen
- Henry Chadwick
- Owen Chadwick
- Heinrich Denifle
- Ignaz von Döllinger
- Louis Duchesne
- Gerhard Ebeling
- Albert Ehrhard
- Jörg Ernesti
- Franz Xaver von Funk
- Ulrich Gäbler
- Klaus Ganzer
- Adolf von Harnack
- Albert Hauck
- Karl Joseph von Hefele
- Joseph Hergenröther
- Heinrich Hermelink
- Georg Hilpisch
- Stephanus Hilpisch
- Karl Holl
- Andreas Holzem
- Erwin Iserloh
- Hubert Jedin
- Friedhelm Juergensmeier
- Roland Kany
- Thomas Kaufmann
- Alois Knoepfler
- Franz Xaver Kraus
- Karl Kupisch
- Volker Leppin
- Joseph Lortz
- Peter Manns
- Christoph Markschies
- Johannes Meier
- Sebastian Merkle
- Lutz E. von Padberg
- Ludwig von Pastor
- Jaroslav Pelican
- Georg Pfeilschifter
- Leopold von Ranke
- Rudolf Reinhardt
- Franz Heinrich Reusch
- Joseph Sauer
- Alkuin Volker Schachenmayr
- Klaus Schatz
- Joseph Schnitzer
- Johann Salomo Semler
- Philip Schaff
- Ludwig Rochus Schmidlin
- Kurt Dietrich Schmidt
- Heinrich Schrörs
- Heribert Smolinsky
- Louis Thomassin
- Wolfgang Ullmann
- Günther Wassilowsky
- Rowan Williams
- Hubert Wolf
Church contemporary history
See also
literature
- Manfred Heim: Introduction to Church History . 2. actual Ed., CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 3406582974
- Church contemporary history. International half-yearly publication for theology and history, since 1988,
- Issue 1/2009: "Spiritual Stories." New perspectives in (church) historiography
- Dirk Fleischer: Between tradition and progress. The structural change of Protestant church historiography in the German-speaking discourse of the Enlightenment, 2 vol., Waltrop 2006.