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K. F. A. Kannis (d. 1888): Die deutsche Reformation. Leipzig, vol. I. 1872 (till 1520, unfinished).
G. WeBErR: Zur Geschichte des Reformationszeitalters. Leipzig, 1874. FR. v. ΒΕΖοι: Gesch. der deutschen Reformation. Berlin, 1886. .
The Elberfeld series of biographies of the Lutheran Reformers, with extracts from their writings, 1861-1875. It begins with C. Scumipr’s Melanchthon, and ends with KOstTLin’s Luther (the large work in 2 vols., revised 1883).
Schriften des Vereins fiir Reformationsgeschichte. Halle, 1883 sqq. A series of monographs on special topics in the Reformation history, especially that of Germany, published by a Society formed in the year of the Luther celebration for the literary defence of Protestantism against Romanism. Kolde, Benrath, Holdewey, Bossert, Walther, are among the contributors. The series includes also an essay on Wiclif by Buddensieg (1885), one on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Theod. Schott (1885), and one on Ignatius of Loyola by E. Gothein (1885).
Of secular histories of Germany during the Reformation period, comp. especially, LEOPOLD VON RANKE: Deutsche Gesch. im Zeitalter der Reformation (6th ed., 1881, 6 vols.), a most important work, see 314. Also, KARL AD. MeEnzZEL (d. 1855): Neuere Geschichte der Deutschen seit der Reformation. Berlin, . 2d ed., 1854 sq.,6 vols. WoLreanc MENZEL (4. 1873): Geschichte der Deutschen, 6th ed., 1872 sq., 3 vols. L. STAcCKE: Deutsche Geschichte. Bielefeld ἃ. Leipzig, 1881, 2 vols. (Vol. II. by W. Borum, pp. 37-182.) Gotriosn EGELHAAF (Dr. Phil., Prof. in the Karls-Gymnasium at Heilbronn): Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation. Gekronte Preisschrift des Allgemeinen Vereins fiir Deutsche Literatur. Berlin, 1885. In the spirit of Ranke’s great work on the same topic, with polemics reference to Janssen. It extends from 1517 to the Peace of Augsburg, 1555. (450 pages.)
II. Roman Catholic historians. See the Lit. in 314.
Ienatrius DoELLINGER (Prof. of Ch. Hist. in Munich, since 1870 Old Catholic); Die Reformation, thre innere Entwicklung und thre Wirkung im Umfange des Inuther. Bekenntnisses. Regensburg, 1846~48, 3 vols.; 2d ed., 1853. A learned collection of testimonies against the Reformation and its effects from contemporary apostates, humanists, and the Reformers themselves (Luther and Melanchthon), and those of their followers who complain bitterly of the decay of morals and the dissensions in the Lutheran church. The author has, nevertheless, after he seceded from the Roman communion, passed a striking judgment in favor of Luther’s greatness.
KARL WERNER: Geschichte der kathol. Theologie in Deutschland. Miinchen, 1866.
Jou. JANSSEN: Geschichte des deutschen Volkes seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters. Freiburg, i. B. 1876-88, 6 vols. (down to 1618). This masterpiece of Ultramontane historiography is written with great learning and ability from a variety of sources (especially the archives of Frankfurt, Mainz, Trier, Ziirich, and the Vatican), and soon passed through twelve editions. It called out able defences of the Reformation by Kawerau (five articles in
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Luthardt’s “ Zeitschrift fiir kirchliche Wissenschaft und kirchl. Leben,” 1882 and 1883), Késtlin, Lenz, Schweizer, Ebrard, Baumgarten, and others, to whom Janssen calmly replied in An meine Kritiker, Freiburg, i. B., tenth thousand, 1883 (227 pp.), and Hin zweites Wort an meine Kritiker, Freib. i. B., twelfth thousand, 1883 (144 pp.). He disclaims all “ tendency,” and professes to aim only at the historical truth. Admitted, but his standpoint is false, because he views the main current of modern history as an apostasy and failure; while it is an onward and progressive movement of Christianity under the guidance of Divine providence and the ever present spirit of its Founder. He reads history through the mirror of Vatican Romanism, and we need not wonder that Pope Leo XIII. has praised Janssen as “a light of historic science and a man of profound learning.” Janssen gives in each volume, in alphabetical order, very full lists of books and pamphlets, Catholic and Protestant, on the different departments of the history of Germany from the close of the fifteenth to the close of the sixteenth century. See vol. I, xxvii.-xliv.; vol. 11. xvii.—xxviii.; vol. III. xxv.-xxxix.; * vol. IV. xviii.-xxxi.; vol. V. xxv.-xliii.
For political history: Fr. v. Bucnnorz: Ferdinand I. Wien, 1832 sqq., 9 vols. HurterR: Ferdinand 11. Schaffhausen, 1850 sqq.