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Guide to the Franz Bibfeldt Papers 1951-1995

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Title:	Bibfeldt, Franz. Papers
Dates:	1951-1995
Size:	2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Repository:	Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.
Abstract:	Contains correspondence, newspaper articles, lectures by Martin Marty and others, biographical material, lists, photographs, memorabilia, academic attire, and a cassette tape. Material relates to fictional scholar Franz Bibfeldt.

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Historical Note

Franz Bibfeldt is a fictional theologian created by Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity, in the 1950s while attending graduate school at the University of Chicago Divinity School. By the 1970s, the Divinity School hosted semi-annual lectures in honor of Franz Bibfeldt. By the 1990s, faculty, students, alums, and staff produced multiple publications and creative works in honor of Bibfeldt, including a Festschrift edited by Martin E. Marty, The Unrelieved Paradox: Studies in the Theology of Franz Bibfeldt, first published in 1994 with a revised edition in 2013.

Scope Note

Contains correspondence, newspaper articles, lectures by Martin Marty and others, biographical material, lists, photographs, memorabilia, academic attire, and a cassette tape. Includes essays from Martin E. Marty --, et al. The Unrelieved Paradox: Studies in the Theology of Franz Bibfeldt. Rev. 18th (or perhaps 19th) anniversary ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2013. Material relates to Franz Bibfeldt.

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Martin E. Marty --, et al. The Unrelieved Paradox: Studies in the Theology of Franz Bibfeldt. Rev. 18th (or perhaps 19th) anniversary ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2013.

Subject Headings

Bibfeldt, Franz
Marty, Martin
Fictional character

INVENTORY

Box 1 Folder 1

Martin E. Marty, Franz Bibfeldt Archive, item list (bracketed numbers appearing in the following folder listing refer to this item list)