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Carl Adolf Wenzeslaus Cornelius (later known by his Bavarian name von Cornelius) (born March 12, 1819 in Wuerzburg; died February 10, 1903 in Munich) was a German historian and theologian.

Cornelius studied in Bonn and Berlin with Leopold von Ranke. Subsequently, he worked as a teacher on the high schools in Emmerich and Koblenz, as well as at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg between 1846 and 1849. In the years 1848/49 he was member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. Cornelius belonged to the parliamentary groups casino and Paris yard. First he worked after 1849 without official training order as a scientist. In the year 1851 it habilitierte itself at the University of Münster. 1852 he became lecturer in history in Breslau. 1854 took place the appointment as the professor at the University of Bonn and 1856 at the University of Munich, where he received „the catholic Professur so called “, although he was not by any means a ultramontaner historian. In this time he worked on a history of the Münster Rebellion. Cornelius comes thereby the merit/service, the excessive quantity to the Täufertum, in addition, to the humanism in Münster to have opened critically. Politically it was first largeGerman adjusted, became however during the realm agreement time a Bewunderer of Otto von Bismarck. Cornelius supported the positions of Ignaz von Döllinger. He endorsed reforms in the Catholic church and rejected the dogma of Papal infallibility. Cornelius belonged to the proponents of the old Catholic church. He belonged to the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Cornelius took over the line with the publication of the Wittelsbach correspondences. This was a collection of documents of the Bavarian rulers of the 16th and 17th centuries. After the departure Heinrich von Sybel, of whom he was a close personal friend, Cornelius became secretary of the Gesamtkommission. In the 1870s he worked particularly with John Calvin. Writings (selection) [work on] * History of the münsterischen riot of the Wiedertäufer (2 volumes, 1855-60) * The establishment of the calvinischen church condition in Geneva (1892) * The first years of the church Calvins 1541-1546 (1896) * Historical work, primarily at the reformation time (1899) Literature [work on] * Carl Adolph Cornelius. In: New German biography (NDB). Volume 3rd Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, P. 363. Web on the left of [work on