Lambert seems to have had a remote influence on Scotland, where principles of church
government somewhat similar to his own were carried into practice after the model of the Reformed
Church of Geneva. For among his pupils was Patrick Hamilton, the proto-martyr of the Scotch
Reformation, who was burned at St. Andrews, Feb. 29, 1528.^782 According to the usual view,
William Tyndale also, the pioneer of the English Bible Version, studied at Marburg about the same
time; for several of his tracts contain on the titlepage or in the colophon the imprint, Hans Luft at
Marborow (Marburg) in the land of Hesse."^783
§ 99. The Reformation in Prussia. Duke Albrecht and Bishop Georg Von Polenz.
I. Luther’s Letters to Albrecht from May 26, 1525, to May 2, 1545 (17, see list in Erl. ed. LVI.
248), to Briesmann and Georg von Polenz, in the collections of De Wette and Enders. J. Voigt:
Briefwechsel der berühmtesten Gelehrten des Zeitalters der Reformation mit Herzog Albrecht
von Preussen, Königsb. 1841.
II. Hartknoch: Preussische Kirchenhistorie, Königsberg, 1686. Arnoldt: Preussische
Kirchengeschichte, Königsberg, 1769. Bock: Leben Albrechts des Aelteren, Königsb. 1750.
Rhesa: De primis sacrorum reformatoribus in Prussia, Königsberg, 1823–1830 (seven University
Programs containing biographies of Briesmann, Speratus, Poliander, Georg v. Polenz, Amandus).
Gebser: Der Dom zu Königsberg, 1835. Erdmann: Preussen, Ordensstaat, in Herzog1, XII.
117–165 (1860; omitted in the second ed.). Pastor (R. Cath.): Neue Quellenberichte über den
Reformator Albrecht von Brandenburg, Mainz, 1876 (in the "Katholik," LVI. February and
March). C. A. Hase: Herzog Albrecht von Preussen und sein Hofprediger. Eine königsberger
Tragödie aus dem Zeitalter der Reformation, Leipzig, 1879. Rindfleisch: Herzog Albrecht von
Hohenzollern, der letzte Hochmeister, und die Reformation in Preussen, Danzig, 1880. P.
Tschackert (professor in Königsberg): Georg von Polentz, Bischof von Samland, Leipzig, 1888
(in "Kirchengeschichtl. Studien" by Brieger, Tschackert, etc., pp. 145–194).
III. The general histories of Prussia by Stenzel, Droysen, Voigt (large work, 1827–39, in 9 vols.;
condensed ed. 1850, in 3 vols.), Cosel, Hahn, Pierson (4th ed. 1881, 2 vols.), Ranke (Zwölf
Bücher preussischer Gesch. 1874), Förster, etc. For the history of the Teutonic order, see
Watterich: Die Gründung des deutschen Ordensstaates in Preussen, Leipzig, 1857; and Joh.
Voigt: Geschichte des deutschen Ritterordens, Berlin, 1859, 2 vols.
IV. Ranke: Vol. II. 326 sqq. Janssen: III. 70–77.
Of greater prospective importance than the conversion of Hesse and even of Saxony to
Protestantism, was the evangelization of Prussia, which from a semi-barbarous Duchy on the shores
of the Baltic rose to the magnitude of a highly civilized kingdom, stretching from the borders of
(^782) His name is entered on the University Album of the year 1527, together with two other Scotchmen, John Hamilton and Gilbert
Winram. See Jul. Cæsar, Catalogus Studiorum scholae Marpurgensis, Marb. 1875, p. 2. Comp. Lorimer, Patrick Hamilton, Edinb. 1857,
and the careful sketch of Professor Mitchell of St. Andrews, in the Schaff-Herzog "Encycl." II. 935 sqq.
(^783) The fact of Tyndale’s sojourn in Marburg has been disputed without good reason by Mombert in the preface to his facsimile edition
of Tyndale’s Pentateuch, New York, 1884 (p. XXIX.). He conjectures that "Marborow" is a fictitious name for Wittenberg. Tyndale’s
name does not appear in the University Register, but he may not have entered it. Hans Luft was the well-known printer of Luther’s Bible
in Wittenberg in Saxony, but he may have had an agent in Marburg "in the land of Hesse."