H. Heppe (German Reformed, d. 1879): Gesch. des deutschen Protestantismus in den Jahren
1555–’85. Marburg, 1852 sqq., 4 vols., 2d ed., 1865 sq. He wrote, also, a number of other books
on the Reformation, especially in Hesse.
Merle d’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation, see § 14. The first division treats of the German
Reformation and is translated into German by Runkel, Stuttgart, 1848–1854, 5 vols., republ.
by the American Tract society. Several English editions; London and New York.
Wilh. Gass: Geschichte der protestantischen Dogmatik. Berlin, 1854–’67, 4 vols.
G. Plitt: Geschichte der evang. Kirche bis 1530. Erlangen, 1867.
Is. A. Dorner (d. 1884): Geschichte. der protestantischen Theologie, besonders in Deutschland.
München, 1867. The first Book, pp. 1–420, treats of the Reformation period of Germany and
Switzerland. English translation, Edinburgh, 1871, 2 vols.
Ch. P. Krauth (d. 1882): The Conservative Reformation. Philadelphia, 1872. A dogmatico-historical
vindication of Lutheranism.
K. F. A. Kahnis (d. 1888): Die deutsche Reformation. Leipzig, vol. I. 1872 (till 1520, unfinished).
G. Weber: Zur Geschichte des Reformationszeitalters. Leipzig, 1874.
Fr. v. Bezold: 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. Schmidt’s Melanchthon, and ends with Köstlin’s Luther (the large
work in 2 vols., revised 1883).
Schriften des Vereins für 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 § 14. Also, Karl Ad. Menzel (d. 1855): Neuere Geschichte der Deutschen seit der
Reformation. Berlin, 2d ed., 1854 sq., 6 vols. Wolfgang Menzel (d. 1873): Geschichte der
Deutschen, 6th ed., 1872 sq., 3 vols. L. Stacke: Deutsche Geschichte. Bielefeld u. Leipzig,
1881, 2 vols. (Vol. II. by W. Boehm, pp. 37–182.) Gottlob Egelhaaf (Dr. Phil., Prof. in the
Karls-Gymnasium at Heilbronn): Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation. Gekrönte
Preisschrift des Allgemeinen Vereins für Deutsche Literatur. Berlin, 1885. In the spirit of
Ranke’s great work on the same topic, with polemic reference to Janssen. It extends from 1517
to the Peace of Augsburg, 1555. (450 pages.)
II. Roman Catholic Historians. See the Lit. in § 14.
Ignatius Döllinger (Prof. of Ch. Hist. in Munich, since 1870 Old Catholic): Die Reformation, ihre
innere Entwicklung und ihre Wirkung im Umfange des Luther. 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. München, 1866.
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