Emidio Campi
# 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, Huldrich Zwingli, Heinrich Bullinger and other reformers.

## Life

He was born on 30 September 1943. He is married with four children.

## Career

He attended the University of Tübingen and the University of Zurich. He is currently the Emeritus Professor of Church History at the University of Zurich,. and a director of the Institute for the History of the Swiss Reformation 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 those who drove it, for instance, Arnold of Brescia, and Luther. Notably, he has suggested that the sixteenth-century Swiss Reformers Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin were advocates of a Social market economy; for example, Calvin, Campi says, "would have decisively combated every system that takes social injustice as a given, because in his eyes, social injustice is an offense to the Creator."

