Fritz Blanke

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Fritz Blanke

Fritz Blanke (22 April 1900 - 4 March 1967) was a Swiss church historian. As a researcher he mainly focussed on Martin Luther, Johann Georg Hamann, Huldrych Zwingli, the Anabaptists and the relationship between churches and sects.

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Life

He was born in Kreuzlingen and studied theology in the universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg and Berlin.

In 1926 he became a privatdozent in church history in Königsberg. From 1929 onwards he was professor for church history and history of dogma at the University of Zürich, where in 1964 he founded the Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte (Institute for Swiss Reformation History).

He received an honorary doctorate from the Albertus-Universität Königsberg in 1930. Originally holding German citizenship, he became a naturalised Swiss citizen in Zürich in 1939, where he later died.

Selected works

Monographs

Reviews and journal articles

Bibliography

In English

In German

References

  1. (in German) Fritz Büsser: Rezension in: Zwingliania, 9/5, 1951, S. 326–327.
  2. (in German) Helmut Meyer: Review in: Zwingliania, 39, 2012, p. 207–209.