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History of the Christian Church • VOLUME 8

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§ 4. LITERATURE OX THE SWISS EEFOEMATION. 13

logues). E. Er. ton Mulixex : Prodromtis einer Schweizer. Historio()>-aphte (Bern, 1874). The author promises a complete Lexicon of Swiss chroniclers, etc, annalists and historians in about -t vols.

I. SocRCES: The works of Zwingli. (EcoLAMPAHirs, Leo Jip.e, Btllixoer, Watt (Vadiaxts'), and other Reformers of the Swiss cantons.

Hermix.tard : Comspondence des EeYor-mntetirs. Geneve, I86l>-'S0. 7 vols.

BrLLiXGER (Heinrich, Zwingli's successor, d. 1575): Refoniiationspeschichte, nach den Antoi/ntphen heransgeij. von J. J. Hottinger ttnd II. II. Vogeli. Frauenfeld, 1838-40, 3 vols. 8^. From 1519 to 1532. In the Swiss- Grerman dialect.

Kessler (Johaxxes, Reformer of St. Gallcn) : SabUita. Cftronik der Jahre ld23-'39. Ed. by A'. Gotzinger. St. Gallen, ISGG-'GS. 2 parts. Kessler was the student whom Luther met at Jena on liis return to Wittenberg {see vol. VI. 385).

Simler (Joh. Jac.) : Sammhtng alter tind neuer Urkunden ztir Beleuchtung der Kirchengeschichte, voniehmlich des Schiceizerlandes. Ziirich, 1757-'6o. 2 Bde in 6 Theilen. S'-"'. Also the tirst 30 vols, of his above-mentioned collection of MSS., which includes many printed pamphlets and documents.

Die Eidgeniisslschen Abschlede. Bd. III. Abth. 2: Ahschiede ron 1500-20, bearbeitet von Segesser (Luzern, 18(30) ; Bd. IV. I a : A.D. 1521-'2S, bearbeitet von Strickler (Brugg, 1873) ; Bd. IV. 1 b: A.D. 1320- 32 (Ziirich, 1876); Bd. IV. 1 c: A.D. 1533-40, bearbeitet von Desc/iuanden (Luzern, 1878) ; Bd. IV. 1 d: A.D. 1541- 4S, bearbeitet von Desrfiicanden (Luzern, 1882). The publication of these official acts of the Swiss Diet was begun at the expense of the Confederacy, a.d. 1839, and embraces the period from 1245 to 1848.

Strickler (Joh.) : Actensamynlung ziir Schireizerischen Befonnationsgeschichte in den Jahren 1521-32. Ziirich, 1878-84. 5 vols. 8*^. Mostly in Swiss- German, partly in Latin. The fifth vol. contains Addenda, Registei's, and a list of books on the history of the Reformation to 1533.

EoLi (Emil) : Actensammlung ztir Geschichte der Ziin-lwr Bef'onnation ron 1510- '33. Ziirich, 1879. (Pages vii. and 947.)

Sturler (M. v.): I'rlunden der Btrnischen Kirclnnrfform. Bern. 1802. Goes only to 1528.

On the Roman Catholic side: Arcliiv Jlir die Schweizer. Be/ormations-Geschifhte, herausgeg. an/ Veranstaltung des Sclnveizer. Piitsvereins. Solothurn, 1808— *76. 3 large vols. This includes in vol. I. the Chronik- der Scfnreizerischen Reformation (till 1534), by Haxs Salat of Luzern (d. after 1543), a historian and poet, whose life and writings were edited by Baechtold, Basel, 1870. Vol. II. contains the papal addresses to the Swiss Diet, etc. Vol. III. 7-82 gives a very full bibliography bearing upon the Reformation and the history of the Swiss Cantons down to 1871. This work is overlooked by most Protestant historians. BuUinger wrote against Salat a book entitled Salz zum Salat.

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II. Later Historical Works :

HoTTiNGER (JoH. Heinrich, ail eminent Orientalist, 1620-'67) : Ilistorice Ecclesiasticce Novi Test. Tiguri [Turici], 1651-'67. 9 vols. 8°. The last four volumes of this very learned but very tedious work treat of the Reformation. The seventh volume has a chapter of nearly 600 pages (24-618) de Indulgentiis in specie !

HoTTiNGER (JoH. Jacob, 16-52-1735, third son of the former) : Helvetische Kirchengeschichten, etc. Ziir., 1698-1729. 4 vols. 4°. Newly ed. by Wirz and Kirchhofer. See below.

Miscellanea Tigurina edita, inedita, vetera, nova, theologica, historica, etc., ed. by J. J. Ulrioh. Zur., 1722-'24. 3 vols. 8°. They contain small biographies of Swiss Reformers and important documents of BuUinger, Leo Judas, Breitinger, Simler, etc.

FiJssLiN (or rtJssLi, Joh. Conr. F., 1704-1775) : Beitrage zur Erlauterung der Kirchenreformationsgeschichten des Schweizerlands. Ziir., 1740-'5o. 5 vols. 8°. Contains important original documents and letters.

RucHAT (Abrah., 1680-1750) : Histoire de la He'formation de la Suisse, 1516— 1556. Geneve, 1727, '28. 6 vols. 8°. New edition with Appendixes by L. VuLLiEMiN. Paris and Lausanne, 1835-'38. 7 vols. 8°. Chiefly important for the French cantons. An English abridgment of the first four vols, in one vol. by J. Collinson (Canon of Durham), London, 1845, goes to the end of a.d. 1536.

Wirz (Ludw.) and Kirchhofer (Melch.) : Helvet. Kirchengeschichte. Aus Joh. Jac. Hottinger's dlterem Werke und anderen Quellen neu bearbeitet. Ziirich, 1808-'19. 5 vols. The modern history is contained in vols. IV. and V. The fifth vol. is by Kirchhofer.

Merle d'Aubigne (professor of Church history at Geneva, d. 1872) : Histoire de la Reformation du 16 siecle. Paris, 1838 sqq. Histoire de la Reformation an temps du Calvin. Paris, 1863-78. Both works were translated and published in England and America, in various editions.

Trechsel (Friedr., 1805-1885) : Beitrage zur Geschichte der Schweiz. Reformirten Kirche, zuncichst derjenigen des Cantons Bern. Bern, 1841, '42, 4 Hefte.

Gieseler (d. 1854) : Ch. History. Germ. ed. III. A. 128 sqq.j 277 sqq. Am. ed. vol. IV. 75-99, 209-217. His account is very valuable for the extracts from the sources.

Baur (d. at Tubingen, 1860) : Kirchengeschichte. Bd. IV. 80-96. Posthumous, Tubingen, 1863.

Hagenbach (Karl Rud., professor of Church history at Basel, d. 1874) : Geschichte der Reformation, 1517-1555. Leipzig, 1834, 4th ed. 1870 (vol. III. of his general Kirchengeschichte). Fifth ed., with a literary and critical appendix, by Dr. F. Nippold, Leipzig, 1887. English translation by Miss E. Moore, Edinburgh and New York, 1878, '79, 2 vols.

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