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Richard Otto Zöpffel (14 June 1843 – 7 January 1891) was a
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and
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born in Arensburg,
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,
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(today Kuressaare,
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). He studied
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at the
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, and
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at the
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under
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(1813-1886). In 1871 he published ''Die Papstwahlen und mit ihnen im nächsten Zusammenhange stehenden Ceremonien in ihrer Entwickelung vom 11. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert'' ("The papal elections ... in their development from the 11th to the 14th century"),Die Papstwahlen
HathiTrust Digital Library and based on this work, received his doctorate in Göttingen. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed associate professor of church history at the
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, becoming a full professor in 1877. In 1887–88 he was rector of the university. With
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(1832–1910), he wrote the influential ''Lexikon für Theologie und Kirchenwesen'' (Glossary of Theology and Church affairs; first edition, 1882), and contributed many articles to the '' Realencyklopädie'' of
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, Plitt, and Hauck.


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1843 births 1891 deaths People from Kuressaare People from Kreis Ösel Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire German Lutheran theologians 19th-century German Christian theologians German historians of religion German male non-fiction writers 19th-century male writers University of Tartu alumni Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg {{Germany-theologian-stub