Emidio Campi

Emidio Campi (born 30 September 1943) is a Swiss historian. As a church historian, he is a specialist in the Reformation in Italy and Switzerland, and has researched and published articles on John Calvin, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Huldrych Zwingli, Heinrich Bullinger and other reformers.

Life

He was born on 30 September 1943. He is married with four children. His specialist area of research is the Protestant reformation. Campi retired on 1 August 2009, following which he was undertook various positions as visiting professor in Montreal, Beirut, Buenos Aires, Lincoln (Nebraska), Grand Rapids (Michigan), New York City, Genoa, Modena and Seoul.

Distinctions

He is one of the world's leading scholars of the Church, and particularly the Reformation (along with Peter Opitz and Christian Moser and Herman Selderhuis), and has lectured extensively on the Reformation and Luther.