LUTHER’S WORKS.
Oldest editions: Wittenberg, 12 German vols., 1589-59, and 7 Latin, 1545- 758; Jena, 8 German and 4 Latin vols., 1555-’58, with 2 supplements by Aurifaber, 1564-65; Altenburg, 10 vols., 1661-’64; Leipzig, 22 vols., 1729-40, fol. — The three best editions are:
(1) The Halle edition by JoHANN GEORG WALCH, Halle, 1740-1750, in 24 vols., 4to. Republished with corrections and additions by DR. WALTHER, STOCKHARDT, KAHLER, etc., Concordia College, St. Louis, 1880 sqq., 25 vols.
(2) The Erlangen-Frankfurt ed. by PLOCHMANN, [RMISCHER, and ENDERsS, etc., Erlangen, and Frankfurt a. M., 1827 sqq., 2d ed., 1862-1883, 101 vols.
100 THE GERMAN REFORMATION. A.D. 1517 To 1530.
8vo. (not yet finished). German writings, 67 vols; Opera Latina, 25 vols.; Com. in Ep. and Gal., 3 vols.; Opera Latina varii argumenti ad reformationis hist. pertinentia, 7 vols. The most important for our purpose are the Reformations-historische Schriften (9 vols., second ed., 1883~85), and the Briefwechsel (of which the first vol. appeared in 1884; 6 vols. are promised).
(3) The Weimar edition (the fourth centennial memorial ed., patronized by the Emperor of Germany), by Drs. KNAAKE, KAWERAU, BERTHEAU, and other Luther scholars, Weimar, 1883 sqq. This, when completed, will be the critical standard edition, It gives the works in chronological order and strict reproduction of the first prints, with the variations of later edd., even the antiquated and inconsistent spelling, which greatly embarrasses the reader not thoroughly familiar with German. The first volume contains Luther’s writings from 1512-1518 ; the second (1884), the writings from 1518-1519; vols. III. and IV. (1885-’6), the Commentaries on the Psalms; vol. VI. (1888), the continuation of the reformatory writings till 1520; several other vols. are in press.
I have usually indicated, from which of these three editions the quotations are made. The last was used most as far as it goes, and is quoted as the “Weimar ed.”
The first collected ed. of Luther’s German works appeared in 1539 with a preface, in which he expresses a wish that all his books might be forgotten and | perish, and the Bible read more instead. (See Erl. Frkf. ed. I., pp. 1-6.)
Selections of Luther’s Works by Prizer (Frankf., 1837, sqq.); ZIMMERMANN (Frankf., 1846 sq.); Orro von GERLACH (Berlin, 1848, 10 vols., containing the Reformatorische Schrifien).
The Letters of LUTHER were separately edited by DE WerrTr, Berlin, 1825, sqq., 5 vols.; vol. VI. by J. C. SEIDEMANN, 1856 (716 pp., with an addition of Lutherbriefe, 1859) ; supplemented by C. A. H. Burkuarprt, Leipz., 1866 (524 pp-); a revised ed. with comments by Dr. E. L. ENDERs (pastor at Oberrad near Frankfurt a. M.), 1884 sqq. (in the Erl. Frankf. ed.). The first volume contains the letters from 1507 to March, 1519. For selection see C. ALFRED HaseE: Lutherbriefe in Auswahl und Uebersetzung, Leipzig, 1867 (420 pages). Tu. KoupE: Analecta Lutherana, Briefe und Actenstiicke zur Geschichte Luther's. Gotha, 1883. Contains letters of Luther and to Luther, gathered with great industry from German and Swiss archives and libraries.
Additional Works of Luther :
The Table Talk of Luther is best edited by AURIFABER, 1566, etc. (reprinted in Walch’s ed. vol. xxii.); by FérsteMANN and BrnpseEtL, Leipzig, 1844—48, 4 vols. (the German Table Talk); by BINDSEIL: Martini Lutheri Colloquia, Latina, etc., Lemgoviz et Detmolde, 1863-’66, 3 vols.; and in the Frankf. ἘΠῚ. ed., vols. 57-62. Dr. Conr. CoRDATUS: Tagebuch tiber Dr. Luther gefiihrt, 1537, first edited by Dr. Wrampelmeyer, Halle, 1885, 521 pages. Last and best edition by Horrs, St. Louis, 1887 (vol. xxii. of Am. ed. of Walch).
Grore BucuwaLp: Andreas Poach’s handschriftl. Sammlung ungedruckter Predigten D. Martin Luthers aus den Jahren 1528 bis 1546. Aus dem Originale zum ersten Mal herausgegeben. Leipzig, 1884, to embrace ὃ vols. (Only the
§ 17. THE LUTHER LITERATURE. 101
first half of the first vol., published 1884, and the first half of the third vol., 1885; very few copies sold.) The MS. collection of Andreas Poach in the public library at Zwickau embraces nine volumes of Luther’s sermons from 1528-1546. They are based on stenographic reports of Diaconus Georg Rérer of Wittenberg (ordained by Luther 1525, ἃ. at Halle, 1557), who took full Latin notes of Luther’s German sermons, retaining, however, in strange medley a number of German words and phrases.
P. Tscuackert: Unbdekannte Predigten u. Scholien Luthers, Berlin, 1888. MSS. of sermons from Oct. 23, 1519, to April 2, 1521, discovered in the University Library at Kénigsberg. ‘They will be publ. in the Weimar edition.