Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Nippold

Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Nippold was a German Protestant theologian born in Emmerich am Rhein.
In 1865 he received his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg, where in 1867 he became an associate professor. From 1871 to 1884, he was a professor of church history at the University of Bern, afterwards moving to Jena, as a successor to Karl von Hase. In 1907 he took his retirement in Oberursel, 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, 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". He also published a collection of his lectures, sermons and essays called "Zur geschichtlichen Würdigung der Religion Jesu", and a new edition of Karl Rudolf Hagenbach's "Vorlesungen über die Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters". Other publications of Nippold include:Welche Wege führen nach Rom?, 1870.Die altkatholische Kirche des Erzbistums Utrecht, 1872.Richard Rothe, ein christliches Lebensbild, 1872–73, two volumes. Die römisch-katholische Kirche im Königreich der Niederlande, 1877.Die Theorie der Trennung von Kirche und Staat 1881.Der Entwickelungsgang des Lebens Jesu im Wortlaut der drei ersten Evangelien, 1895.