Carl Mirbt
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Carl Theodor Mirbt (July 21, 1860 in Gnadenfrei, Province of Silesia – September 27, 1929 in Göttingen) was a German Protestant church historian. He was a member of the history of religions school.
Mirbt studied theology from 1880 to 1885 in Halle, Erlangen and Göttingen. During his studies in Göttingen, he was a member of the Thuringia Academic Theological Society.[1] In 1888, he became a member of the Theological Faculty of the University of Göttingen with a doctoral dissertation on "The Position of Augustine in the Gregorian Church Dispute". In 1888, he qualified as a Göttingen professor in church history.
In 1889, he was an associate professor of church history at the University of Marburg, and in 1890 a full professor there. He held the office of rector (1903/04). From 1911 until his retirement in 1928, Mirbt was professor of church history at the University of Göttingen, where he served as rector (1920/21). In 1914 Carl Mirbt became an honorary member of the German fraternity Göttinger Wingolf.[2]
In 1918, Mirbt founded the German Society of Missionology, which he chaired until his death. From 1927 to 1929, he was chairman of the Society of Lower Saxon Church History.
Works (translated German titles)
- Quellen zur Geschichte des Papsttums und des römischen Katholizismus [Sources for the History of the Papacy] (in German). Freiburg: J.C.B. Mohr. 1895. 100542261 at the HathiTrust Digital Library.
- The Prussian Legation at the court of the pope. Leipzig: Evangel Bookstore d. Federal, 1899.
- The Catholic - Faculty of Theology at Marburg: a contribution to the history of the Catholic church in the Electorate of Hesse and Nassau. Marburg: Elwert, 1905.
- Missionary and Colonial Policy in the German Protectorates. Tübingen 1910
- History of the Catholic Church from the mid-18th Century until the Vatican Council. Berlin [u.a.]: Goschen'sche Verl.buchh, 1913
- The Evangelical Mission: an Introduction to its History and Character. Leipzig: Hinrichs'sche Bookstore, 1917.
