Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Nippold (15 September 1838 – 4 August 1918) was a German

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born in Emmerich am Rhein. In 1865 he received his habilitation at the

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, where in 1867 he became an associate professor. From 1871 to 1884, he was a professor of

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at the

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, afterwards moving to

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, as a successor to Karl von Hase. In 1907 he took his retirement in

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, where he died on 4 August 1918. Nippold's primary interest involved modern church history, and he was associated with a number of current church policy concerns. He was co-founder of the ''Evangelischer Bund'' (Protestant Federation), a movement for preservation of German Protestant interests.

Written works

He was a prolific author, his best work being the highly acclaimed, multi-volume "''Handbuch der neuesten Kirchengeschichte''" (Textbook of the latest church history). He also published a collection of his lectures, sermons and essays called "''Zur geschichtlichen Würdigung der Religion Jesu''" (The historical assessment of the religion of Jesus), and a new edition of Karl Rudolf Hagenbach's "''Vorlesungen über die Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters''" (Lectures on church history of the

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). Other publications of Nippold include: * ''Welche Wege führen nach Rom?'' (Which road leads to

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?), 1870. * ''Die altkatholische Kirche des Erzbistums Utrecht'' (The

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of the Archdiocese of

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), 1872. * ''Richard Rothe, ein christliches Lebensbild'' (

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, a Christian biography), 1872–73, two volumes. * ''Die römisch-katholische Kirche im Königreich der Niederlande'' (The

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in the Kingdom of the Netherlands), 1877. * ''Die Theorie der Trennung von Kirche und Staat'' (The theory of

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) 1881. * ''Der Entwickelungsgang des Lebens Jesu im Wortlaut der drei ersten Evangelien'' (The history of the life of Jesus in the text of the first three

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), 1895.

References

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Wikisource
biography of Karl Rudolf Hagenbach @

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