Born in 1963 in Hanover

Studied Protestant theology, classical philology, and Italian language and literature in Tübingen, Göttingen, and Rome

Teaching internship (subjects: Latin and Greek) in Berlin

Doctorate with the thesis "Philosopher, Magician, Charlatan, and Antichrist: On the Reception of Philostratus' Vita Apollonii in the Renaissance" in Göttingen

A member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1994; worked at the Reuchlin Research Center in Pforzheim until 2007, and has been at the Melanchthon Research Center in Heidelberg since 2008

Research focus:

– Letters and epistolary literature of the 15th and 16th centuries

– Reception of ancient literature

– Renaissance Humanism and the Reformation

Monographs: 

Philosopher, Magician, Charlatan, and Antichrist: On the Reception of Philostratus’s *Vita Apollonii* in the Renaissance (Kalliope 8), Heidelberg 2008 (XI and 403 pp.) 

Johannes Reuchlin’s Library: Then and Now. Treasures and Fate of a Renaissance Book Collection (Exhibition Catalog, Pforzheim), edited in collaboration with Gerald Dörner, published by Isabel Greschat, Heidelberg, et al., 2007 (128 pp.) 

Editions: 

Melanchthon’s Correspondence, Academy of Sciences and Humanities on behalf of Academy of Sciences and Humanities Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities by Heinz Scheible (up to vol. T 10) and Christine Mundhenk (from vol. T 11 onward), 17 vols. (T 10–26), co-edited with Marion Bechtold (T 10), Heidi Hein, Regine Klar (T 23–26), Simone Kurz (T 10–11), and Christine Mundhenk, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2009–2025 (640, 414, 533, 631, 624, 664, 409, 356, 628, 621, 494, 484, 576, 596, 590, 555, and 615 pp.)

Johannes Reuchlin, Correspondence, ed. by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 4 vols., edited in collaboration with Gerald Dörner; vol. 1 with the assistance of Stefan Rhein, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1999–2013 (LXV, p. 505,  LXV and 727, LXXIII and 595, and L and 522 pp.) 

Publishing: 

Phoenix Reuchlin 1522/2022. Narratives and Images from Five Hundred Years (Pforzheim Reuchlin Publications 13), Ostfildern 2026 (272 pp.) 

The Mysteries of Signs - Johannes Reuchlin, Jewelry, Writing & Language, edited in collaboration with Cornelie Holzach, Stuttgart 2022 (272 pages)

Melanchthon in German, Vol. 6: Sunday Lectures and Anecdotes, edited in collaboration with Stefan Rhein and Gottfried Naumann, Leipzig 2020 (405 pp.)

Philipp Melanchthon in 100 Personal Letters, edited in collaboration with Christine Mundhenk and Heidi Hein, Göttingen 2017 (195 pp.) 

Advocates of Freedom! Humanists and Reformers in Dialogue, a companion volume to the exhibition at the Reuchlinhaus in Pforzheim (September 20–November 8, 2015), Heidelberg 2015 (184 pp.) 

Philipp Melanchthon in 16th-Century Epistolary Culture, edited in collaboration with Heidi Hein and Christine Mundhenk, Heidelberg 2015 (345 pp.) 

Johannes Reuchlin, Correspondence. An edition for general readers in German translation by Georg Burkard †, Vol. 4, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2011 (239 pp.) 

Contributions to anthologies: 

On the Complete Edition of Melanchthon’s Correspondence, in: Editorial Studies – Textual Criticism – Digital Humanities. 25 Heidelberg Editorial Projects, ed. by Isabel Langkabel, Ludger Lieb, Maximiliane Nietzschmann, and Lena Sowada, with the collaboration of Franziska Werner, Heidelberg 2026 (KEMTE 7), 131–138: https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1634/chapter/23595 

Private, Public, Edited, Fictional, Anonymous: Epistolary Journalism from Johannes Reuchlin to Joachim Camerarius the Elder (between 1514 and 1569), in: Epistolary Journalism of the Early Modern Period. Forms and Functions of Epistolary Genres between 1500 and 1800, ed. by Christian Meierhofer and Björn Spiekermann, Leiden and Boston 2026 (Chloe 52), pp. 98–121 

The “worst” of the Tübingen Reuchlinists. Reuchlin’s student Philipp Melanchthon, in: Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522) Reinterpreted. A Württemberg Councilor and Scholar in the European Context, ed. by Tjark Wegner, Wolfgang Polleichtner, and Matthias Morgenstern, Stuttgart 2025 (Contubernium – Tübingen Contributions to University and Academic History 93), pp. 205–227

In the Web of the Cadmes Brothers and Quarrelsome Souls: Camerarius and Melanchthon Caught Between the Fronts, in: Camerarius in Context: Constellations and Discursive Landscapes of the 16th Century, edited by Marion Gindhart in collaboration with Joachim Hamm, Stuttgart 2024, pp.149–168 

"Hanc epistolam, si me amas, conscindes" – Observations on the Subject of Letters and the Public Sphere, in: Letter Culture in the Reformation Era, ed. by Johannes Schilling, Leipzig 2023, pp.11–32 

Johannes Reuchlin and the Young Melanchthon: Narratives of Continuity and Change, in: Fragmenta Melanchthoniana 8: Between the Bible Movement and the Reformation, ed. by Günter Frank, Ubstadt-Weiher et al. 2023, pp. 81–100

“A Most Excellent Guide for the Scholars.” Melanchthon and the Wittenberg Students from Memmingen (1518–1560), co-authored with Tobias Gilcher, Heidi Hein, Regine Klar, and Christine Mundhenk, in: Correspondence of Theologians from Southwest Germany. Insights into Church and Cultural History, ed. by Marcel Böhme, Max Graff, and Judith Steiniger, Heidelberg 2023, pp.189–206

Johannes Reuchlin in the Cosmos of Words, Signs, and Wonders, in: The Mysteries of Signs—Johannes Reuchlin, Ornament, Writing, and Language, edited by Matthias Dall'Asta and Cornelie Holzach, Stuttgart 2022, pp.12–23and138–147

Fifteen handwritten letters by Johannes Reuchlin from Germany, France, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland, in: The Mysteries of Signs—Johannes Reuchlin, Ornament, Script, and Language, edited by Matthias Dall'Asta and Cornelie Holzach, Stuttgart 2022, pp.24–61

Spotlight on a Missing Portrait, in: The Mysteries of Signs—Johannes Reuchlin, Ornament, Script, and Language, edited by Matthias Dall'Asta and Cornelie Holzach, Stuttgart 2022, pp.110–119

Reuchlin’s Contribution to the Reading of the Bible, in: Renaissance and Biblical Humanism, ed. by J. Marius J. Lange van Ravenswaay and Herman J. Selderhuis, Göttingen 2020 (Refo500 Academic Studies 65), pp. 55–78

“A quarrel is easily started, but its end is difficult.” Johannes Reuchlin: Humanist, Polemicist, and Symbolic Figure, in: Toward the Reformation. Criticizing the Church, Reforming the Church (15th–16th Centuries), ed. by Susanna Peyronel Rambaldi, Turin 2019 (Series of the Society for Waldensian Studies 42), pp. 145–157 

16th-Century Paparazzi: Melanchthon’s Correspondence and the Boundaries of Privacy, in: Boundaries, Turning Points, and Breaks, ed. by Ladislaus Ludescher, Frankfurt am Main 2019, pp. 33–57 

Triumphal Processions, Underdogs, and Fools. Humanist Pamphlets in Text and Image, in: Fragmenta Melanchthoniana 7: 500 Years of the Reformation, ed. by Günter Frank, Heidelberg, etc., 2019, pp. 103–125

Melanchthon’s Letters to Joachim Camerarius – A Reinterpretation in Light of Their New Edition, in: Camerarius Polyhistor. Knowledge Transmission in German Humanism, ed. by Thomas Baier, Tübingen 2017, pp. 301–322 

A Reformer Looks Back on the Influential Teacher of His Youth: Melanchthon’s Speech on Johannes Reuchlin of Pforzheim (1552), in: A Father of the Modern Age – Reuchlin, the Jews, and the Reformation. Catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Tübingen City Museum, edited by Jörg Robert, Evamarie Blattner, and Wiebke Ratzeburg, Tübingen 2017, pp.224–234  

Scholastics, Sheep’s Heads, and Scoundrels. Borderline Satire and Boundless Polemics in the Jewish Book Controversy (1511–1521), in: Crossing Boundaries and Turning Points, ed. by Ladislaus Ludescher and Marco Wagner, Frankfurt am Main 2017, pp.9–37 

Acquisition Strategies of Private Book Owners at the Crossroads of Humanism and the Reformation, in: * * *Bibliothek und Wissenschaft* 49 (2016), pp.221–242 

Piety and Criticism of the Church: The Lay Theologian Johannes Reuchlin, in: How Pious Were the Humanists?, ed. by Berndt Hamm and Thomas Kaufmann, Wiesbaden 2016 (Wolfenbüttel Essays on Renaissance Studies 33), pp. 223–246 

Melanchthon and Magdeburg – Aspects of a Relationship, in: Magdeburg and the Reformation, edited by Maren Ballerstedt, Gabriele Köster, and Cornelia Poenicke, Part 1: A City Follows Martin Luther, Halle an der Saale 2016 (Magdeburg Papers 7), pp. 301–313 

Nikolaus Gerbel of Pforzheim (1485–1560): Philology in the Service of Humanism and the Reformation, in: * * *Advocates of Freedom! Humanists and Reformers in Dialogue, companion volume to the exhibition at the Reuchlinhaus Pforzheim (September 20 to November 8, 2015), commissioned by the City of Pforzheim and edited by Matthias Dall’Asta, Heidelberg 2015, pp. 149–158 

Disiecta membra. Letters as a Source of Cultural History, in: Philipp Melanchthon in the Epistolary Culture of the 16th Century, ed. by Matthias Dall'Asta, Heidi Hein, and Christine Mundhenk, Heidelberg 2015 (Akademiekonferenzen 19), pp. 13–34 

A Visit to the Monastery of the Soul. The Hugo de Folieto Codices of the Hohenbusch Monastery of the Order of the Holy Cross (Cod. 1008 and Cod. 1075 of the Diocesan and Cathedral Library of Cologne), in: Knowledge Transfer Between Manuscript and Incunabulum. Studies on the Library of the Hohenbusch Order of the Holy Cross Monastery, ed. by Ralf Georg Czapla and Harald Horst, Erkelenz 2013 (Publications of the Erkelenz Regional Heritage Society 27), pp. 79–101 

Reuchlin in the Context of Renaissance Humanism, in: Johannes Reuchlin and the “Controversy over the Books on the Jews” (Tübingen Lecture Series, Winter Semester 2011/2012), edited by Sönke Lorenz † and Dieter Mertens, Ostfildern 2013 (Tübingen Contributions to Regional History 22), pp. 119–146

Dedications, annotations, and owner’s marks in selected books from the libraries and circles of Reuchlin, Luther, and Melanchthon, in: Traces of Transmission and Use in Historical Book Collections, ed. by Hanns Peter Neuheuser, Cologne 2012 (Kleine Schriften der Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln 34), pp. 93–124 

The Tübingen Melanchthon Circle and the Wittenberg “Melanchthon Circle.” Myth and Reality of Two Academic Groups, in: Philipp Melanchthon. Teacher of Germany, Reformer of Europe, ed. by Irene Dingel and Armin Kohnle, Leipzig 2011 (Leucorea—Studies in the History of the Reformation and Lutheran Orthodoxy 13), pp. 117–127 

Bibliotheca trilinguis and “dimidium animae” – Johannes Reuchlin as a Book Collector, in: Libraries and Collectors Through the Ages (Conference in Hamburg on May 20 and 21, 2010), edited by Sabine Graef, Sünje Prühlen, and Hans-Walter Stork, Frankfurt am Main 2010 (Journal of Library Science and Bibliography – Special Issue 100), pp. 117–143 

Paradigms of Asymmetrical Communication. Disputational Literature in the Jewish Book Controversy, in: Reuchlin’s Friends and Foes. Communicative Constellations of an Early Modern Media Event, ed. by Wilhelm Kühlmann, Ostfildern 2010, pp. 29–43 

Christ’s Tomb and Mary’s Ladder to Heaven – First Edition of Two Theological Poems by Johannes Reuchlin, in: 100 Years of Academy of Sciences and Humanities Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Fruits from the Tree of Knowledge. A Festschrift by the Research Staff, edited by Ditte Bandini and Ulrich Kronauer, Heidelberg 2009, pp. 381–393 

Histrionum exercitus et scommata – Actors Who Spout Pithy Sayings. Johannes Reuchlin’s “Sergius” and the Beginnings of Neo-Latin Comedy, in: Latin Drama of the Early Modern Period. Exemplary Insights into Practice and Theory, ed. by Reinhold F. Glei and Robert Seidel, Tübingen 2008 (Early Modern Period 129), pp. 13–29 

Textual Flow and Sources of Error: Modern Editorial Philology as Illustrated by Reuchlin’s Correspondence, in: Fears and Ways Out: Images from Times of Upheaval, Vol. 2: Pforzheim in Reuchlin’s Time, Heidelberg et al. 2005, pp. 167–184 and 320ff. 

Ars maledicendi. Etymology, Satire, and Polemics in the Writings of Johannes Reuchlin, in: New Contributions to City History III, ed. by Stefan Pätzold, Ostfildern 2003 (Pforzheim Historical Papers 11), pp. 49–72 

“Jewish Brahmins,” in: A Hands-On History of Science: From Frommann to Holzboog, ed. by Günther Bien, Eckhart Holzboog, and Tina Koch, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2002, pp. 215–222 

Amor sive amicitia. Humanist Concepts of Friendship in Marsilio Ficino and Johannes Reuchlin, in: Mentis amore ligati. Latin Poetry on Friendship and Poetic Friendship in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, Festschrift for Reinhard Düchting on his 65th Birthday, ed. by Boris Körkel, Tino Licht, and Jolanta Wiendlocha, Heidelberg 2001, pp. 57–69 

Books from Italy. Reuchlin’s Contacts with Italian Booksellers and Printers, in: Reuchlin and Italy, ed. by Gerald Dörner, Stuttgart 1999 (Pforzheimer Reuchlinschriften 7), pp. 23–43 

Encyclopedia article: 

“Reuchlin, Johannes,” in: Killy Literary Encyclopedia: Authors and Works of the German-Speaking World, 2nd fully revised ed., ed. by Wilhelm Kühlmann, vol. 9, Berlin, et al., 2010, pp. 565–570 

“Reuchlin, Johannes,” in: Encyclopedia of Philosophers, ed. by Stefan Jordan and Burkhard Mojsisch, Stuttgart 2009, pp. 458–460 

“Gerbel, Nikolaus,” in: German Humanism 1480–1520. Dictionary of Authors, ed. by Franz Josef Worstbrock, vol. 1, part 3, Berlin, et al., 2008, pp. 904–924 

“Cuno, Johannes,” in: German Humanism 1480–1520. Encyclopedia of Authors, ed. by Franz Josef Worstbrock, vol. 1, part 2, Berlin, etc., 2006, pp. 510–519 

Translations: 

Two poems and 11 letters by Melanchthon, in: *Melanchthon deutsch*, vol. 7: *Aus Melanchthons Alltag*, ed. by Michael Beyer, Christiane Domtera-Schleichardt, Armin Kohnle, and Stefan Rhein, Leipzig 2023, nos. 18–19, pp. 72–76; No. 59, pp. 209ff.; No. 62, pp. 214–222; Nos. 65–73, pp. 237–253

Three of Melanchthon’s Sunday Lectures, in: Melanchthon in German, Vol. 6: Sunday Lectures and Anecdotes, ed. by Stefan Rhein, Gottfried Naumann, and Matthias Dall’Asta, Leipzig 2020, pp. 11–93

Approximately thirty letters by Melanchthon, in: Philipp Melanchthon in 100 Personal Letters, edited by Christine Mundhenk, Matthias Dall’Asta, and Heidi Hein, Göttingen 2017 

Inscription on the epitaph for Margrave Ernst Friedrich of Baden-Durlach (Pforzheim Castle Church), in: Program for “Pforzheim in Aufruhr,” a play based on the novel *Der Nackte Mann* by Emil Strauß, Pforzheim 2006, p. [15] 

Johannes Cuno, Letter to Greece dated May 31 [1508], in: Johannes Reuchlin, Correspondence. Selected Edition in German Translation by Adalbert Weh †, Vol. 2, ed. by Manfred Fuhrmann, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2004, pp. 64ff. 

Philipp Melanchthon, *Oratio de Capnione Phorcensi* (CR XI, 999–1010), in: *Melanchthon deutsch*, ed. by Michael Beyer, Stefan Rhein, and Günther Wartenberg, Leipzig 1997, vol. 1, pp. 183–201; 2nd ed. 2011, pp. 188–206 

Antonio Vivaldi, *Che giova il sospirar* (RV 679), in: Göttingen Handel Festival 1991. Programs, Texts, and Introductions to the Works, p. 75ff.

Articles in newspapers and magazines (minimum): 

Crossbow arrows on the Christmas tree. Christmas with Melanchthon and the Luther family, in: Athene. Journal of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , pp. 52–54.

“Over a Beer with Luther?” – A Spotlight on Melanchthon and Two Small Struggles for Freedom, in: Athene. Journal of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , p. 28ff.

A Scientific Poster from 1557 – Melanchthon as a Music Editor, in: Athene. Journal of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , p. 20ff.

When the Private Becomes Public Against One’s Will. Philipp Melanchthon’s Scandalous Letter to the Electoral Councilor Christoph von Carlowitz, in: *Momente. Beiträge zur Landeskunde von Baden-Württemberg*, 2019, Issue 3, pp. 16–19 

Book Burning and the Disappearance of Documents: The Trial of Johannes Reuchlin, in: *Momente. Beiträge zur Landeskunde von Baden-Württemberg*, 2005, Issue 3, pp. 36–39 (co-authored with Gerald Dörner)

Adams' Revelation, in: bwWoche, July 18, 2005, No. 27, p. 28 

“Half of My Soul”: Reuchlin’s Library in the Castle Church, in: Blickpunkt Schloßkirche 10 (Pforzheim 2000), pp. 14–16

Miscellaneous: 

Humanists in Religious Conflicts: Johannes Reuchlin and His Student Philipp Melanchthon (Abstract), in: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2022, Heidelberg 2023, pp. 114–119

"The Foreign Is Not a Threat" (BZ Interview by Christine Adam): Matthias Dall'Asta on the 500th anniversary of the death of the great humanist Johannes Reuchlin, in: Badische Zeitung, June 30, 2022, p. 11

"The Reformation Nightmare: Melanchthon and the Theologians' Anger" (abridged version), in: Yearbook of Academy of Sciences and Humanities Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2017, Heidelberg 2018, pp. 132–136 

“16th-Century Paparazzi: Melanchthon’s Correspondence and the Unvarnished Truth” ( abridged version), in * *: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2013, Heidelberg 2014, pp. 146–149 

What would Reuchlin say... PZ interview with Matthias Dall’Asta about the Pforzheim humanist and his eloquent defense of otherness, in: Pforzheimer Zeitung, December 1, 2012, No. 279, p. 28.

Christoph Timm, Johannes Reuchlin Museum. Exhibition catalog for the exhibition in Pforzheim, with contributions by Matthias Dall’Asta, Sabine Reister, and Sonny Timm, Heidelberg, et al., 2011 (120 pp.) 

“One Should Not Burn Jewish Books!” – Johannes Reuchlin’s *Augenspiegel* (1511) and Its Impact (Lecture delivered at the opening of “Brotherhood Week,” Reuchlinhaus Pforzheim, March 13, 2011), Special Publication by the Cultural Affairs Office of the City of Pforzheim, 2011 (17 pp.) 

The Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn Dispute from a Historical Perspective, in: Program for the world premiere of Frank Geerk’s play “Reuchlin and Pfefferkorn,” Pforzheim 2005, p. [9]ff., reprinted in: Program booklet for the German premiere of Peter Wortsman’s play “Burning Words” (“Where Books Are Burned ... Reuchlin’s Dispute over Jewish Literature”), Pforzheim 2014, pp. 10ff. 

Introduction to Johannes Reuchlin, Correspondence. An edition for general readers in German translation by Adalbert Weh, Vol. 1, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2000, pp. 13–28

Online publications:

Matinee on the History of Pforzheim, Reuchlin and Magic, PZ-Forum Pforzheim, November 4, 2007, https://www.loebliche-singer-pforzheim.de/reuchlin-und-die-magie 

Speech at the opening of the exhibition “Johannes Reuchlin’s Library: Yesterday & Today. Treasures and Fate of a Renaissance Book Collection,” Pforzheim City Museum, September 9, 2007, https://www.loebliche-singer-pforzheim.de/johannes-reuchlins-bibliothek-gestern-heute/ 

Pathways to Philosophy, 2002, https://www.frommann-holzboog.de/wege/5166

Reviews:

Ide François,Francesco Filelfo, Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii. Text and Context, Geneva 2024 (Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 650), in: Deutsches Archiv 81 (2025), issue 1, p. 354f.

Marius Kraus, Ulrich von Hutten and his opponents. Humanistic invectives on the eve of the Reformation, Baden-Baden 2022 (Transalpines Mittelalter 1), in: Deutsches Archiv 80 (2024), issue 2, p. 745f.

"Ich kan yetzo nit mee ..." Johannes Reuchlin on the road in the service of Württemberg. Companion book and catalog for the exhibition of the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg, Main State Archives Stuttgart, edited by Erwin Frauenknecht in collaboration with Peter Rückert and Maren Volk, Stuttgart 2022, in: Deutsches Archiv 79 (2023), issue 2, p. 871f.

Daniel Gehrt and Kathrin Paasch (eds.), Melanchthon in Gotha – A History of the Collection and Research, Gotha 2016 (Publication of the Gotha Research Library 53), in: Herbergen der Christenheit 2018/2019 (published 2022), pp. 297–299

Franz Posset, *Respect for the Jews: Collected Works*, Vol. 4, Eugene 2019, in: *Theologische Literaturzeitung* 147 (2022), No. 1/2, pp. 92–94

Uwe Plath, Sebastian Castellio (1515–1563). A Pioneer of Tolerance in the Age of Religious Divisions, Würzburg 2020 (Humanistic Portraits, Vol. 3), in: Journal of the History of the Upper Rhine 169 (2021), pp. 717–719

Katharina Suter-Meyer, Educator – Critic – Author. Joachim Vadian’s Comments on Pomponius Mela (Basel, 1522). Zurich 2020, in: Journal of the History of the Upper Rhine 169 (2021), pp. 713–715

Christine Christ-von Wedel, The Abbess, the Mercenary Leader, and Their Daughters: Katharina von Zimmern in the Political Turmoil of the Reformation Era, with contributions by Irene Gysel, Jeanne Pestalozzi, and Marlis Stähli, Zurich 2019, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 169 (2021), pp. 710–712

Stefan Bauer, *The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between the Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation*, Oxford 2019/2020, in: *Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen* 39 (2018), Issue 2 (published 2021), pp. 125–129

Urs B. Leu and Peter Opitz (eds.), Conrad Gessner (1516–1565). The Renaissance of Learning, Berlin/Boston 2019, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 168 (2020), pp. 721–723

Martin Wallraff, Silvana Seidel Menchi, and Kaspar von Greyerz (eds.), Basel 1516. Erasmus' Edition of the New Testament, Tübingen 2016 (Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation 91), in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 168 (2020), pp. 653–656

Heinrich Bullinger, Works, Section 4, Historical Writings, Vol. 1, Tigurine Chronicle, 3 vols., ed. by Hans Ulrich Bächtold, Zurich 2018, in: Journal of the History of the Upper Rhine 167 (2019), pp. 489–492 

Heinrich Bullinger, Works, Section 2, Correspondence, Vol. 18: Letters from October to December 1546, and Vol. 19: Letters from January to March 1547, each edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2017 and 2018, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 166 (2018), pp. 524–526

Adriano Prosperi, “Luther: The Years of Faith and Freedom,” in *Reformation and Religious Movements*. *Journal of the Society for Waldensian Studies* 3 (June 2018), pp. 223–230   

Jan-Hendryk de Boer: Unexpected Intentions – A Genealogy of the Reuchlin Conflict, Tübingen 2016 (Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation 94), in: H-Soz-Kult 04/05/2017:https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-25337

Antonia Landois, Scholarship and the Patriciate. Spheres of Influence of the Nuremberg Humanist Sixtus Tucher (1459–1507), Tübingen 2014 (Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation 77), in: Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen 268 (2016), pp. 244–262 

Heinrich Bullinger, Works, Section 2, Correspondence, Vol. 17: Letters from June to September 1546, edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2015, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 164 (2016), pp. 621–623

Heinrich Bullinger, Works, Section 2, Correspondence, Vol. 16: Letters from January to May 1546, edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2014, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 163 (2015), pp. 428–431

Heinrich Bullinger, Works, Section 2, Correspondence, Vol. 15: Letters from the Year 1545, edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2013, in: Journal of the History of the Upper Rhine 162 (2014), pp. 540–543 

David H[otchkiss] Price, Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books, Oxford 2011, in: Scientia Poetica 16 (2012), pp. 211–218 

Philipp Melanchthon, *Initia Doctrinae Physicae, Dictata in Academia Vuitebergensi* – *The Beginnings of Physical Doctrine*, Lectures Delivered at the University of Wittenberg, trans. by Walther Ludwig, Rahden/Westf. 2008 (Subsidia classica 11); Filippo Melantone, I libri di fisica (1549–1553), Vol. 1: Inizi di dottrina fisica (1549), Vol. 2: Libro dell’anima (1553), both with an introduction, translated (into Italian), and annotated by Dino Bellucci, Turin 2009 (Filippo Melantone, Opere scelte 1), both in: Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen 32 (2008–2010), pp. 70–76 

Stefan Bauer, “The Censorship and Fortunes of Platina’s Lives of the Popes in the Sixteenth Century,” Turnhout 2006, in: Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen 32 (2008–2010), pp. 77–79 

Stefano Di Brazzano, Pietro Bonomo (1458–1546). Diplomat, Humanist, and Bishop of Trieste: His Life and Literary Work, Trieste 2005, in: Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen 30 (2006), pp. 158–166 

Hans-Rüdiger Schwab, Johannes Reuchlin – Germany’s First Humanist, Munich 1998, in: Forum Classicum 42 (1999), Issue 1, pp. 49–51

Lectures (since 2009):

Wittenberg as a Central European News Hub. Letters with News from Around the World in the Correspondence of Melanchthon, Joachim Camerarius the Elder, and Heinrich Bullinger (Vienna, conference “Transregional Correspondence in the Reformation Era,” September 19, 2025); in an expanded form under the slightly modified title Wittenberg as a Central European News Hub of the Reformation Era. Melanchthon’s Letters with News from Around the World , presented again at the general meeting of the Society for the Publication of the Corpus Catholicorum (Mannheim, 127th General Assembly of the Görres Society, September 26, 2025)

Josel von Rosheim and the humanist Johannes Reuchlin – two fighters in the realm of the dark ages (Breisach, Blue House, event for "European Day of Jewish Culture," September 3, 2023)

The humanist paradise, endlessly reimagined. Johannes Sapidus’s *Apotheosis Erasmi* (1536) and Erasmus of Rotterdam’s *Apotheosis Capnionis* (1522) (Sélestat, conference “Ioannes Sapidus de Sélestat [1490–1561]. Life and Work of the Neo-Latin Poet," April 29, 2023)

"Back to the Sources" – The Humanist and Lay Theologian Johannes Reuchlin (St. Georgen in the Black Forest, Evangelical Adult Education in the Villingen Church District, February 2, 2023)

"Hanc epistolam, si me amas, conscindes" – Observations on the Topic of Letters and the Public Sphere (Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Conference on "The Culture of Letter-Writing in the Reformation Era," January 25, 2023)

Jewelry, Magic, Mysterious Symbols. Approaches to Reuchlin and His Circle ( Pforzheim Jewelry Museum, as part of the event: “Seeing What Others Do Not See: Reuchlin, Giorgione, and the Magical Tradition of the Renaissance,” October 16, 2022)

Humanists in Religious Conflicts: Johannes Reuchlin and His Student Philipp Melanchthon (Heidelberg, “Wir forschen. Für Sie” series by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, July 14, 2022)

The worst of the Tübingen Reuchlinists. Reuchlin’s student Philipp Melanchthon (Tübingen, conference “Johannes Reuchlin 1455–1522. Humanist Scholarship at the University of Tübingen,” July 7, 2022)

Johannes Reuchlin – Old and New Debates (Pforzheim, [Welcome Address and] Introduction, 9th International Reuchlin Congress of the City of Pforzheim: “Phoenix Reuchlin 1522/2022. Narratives and Images from Five Hundred Years,” June 29–July 1, 2022)

Reuchlin – Between Catholicism and the Reformation (Pforzheim, Theological Café at the Stadttheater, Catholic Education Center Pforzheim, May 22, 2022)

The Humanist and Lay Theologian Johannes Reuchlin and the Early Years of the Reformation (Stuttgart, Evangelical Education Center Hospitalhof, March 30, 2022)

Johannes Reuchlin and the Young Melanchthon: Narratives of Continuity and Change ( Bretten, Melanchthon House, Sunday Lecture, February 20, 2022)

Caught in the Web of the Cadmes Brothers and the Haderkatzen: Camerarius and Melanchthon Caught Between Two Fires (Würzburg, “Camerarius in Context” Conference, December 19, 2019) 

“Heh, heh, the wicked fox has been caught!” Really? Notes on the Correspondence of a Controversial Reformer (Mainz, “Workshop Discussions,” Academy of Sciences and Humanities the Literature of Mainz, May 8, 2019)

“A quarrel is easily started, but its end is difficult.” Johannes Reuchlin: Humanist, Polemicist, and Symbolic Figure (Torre Pellice, conference “Toward Reformation: Criticizing the Church, Reforming the Church [late 15th – early 16th century],” September 1, 2017) 

The Reformation Nightmare: Melanchthon and the Theologians’ Fury (Heidelberg, “We Research. For You” series by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, June 14, 2017)

Melanchthon and the Jews – A Case of “Enlightened” Anti-Semitism? (Paris, conference “Jews and Protestants, 16th to 20th Century,” March 16, 2017, Museum of Jewish Art and History / German Historical Institute) 

Johannes Reuchlin: Humanist, Model Swabian, and Superhero. On the Fascination with Historical Pioneers and Bridge-Builders (Pforzheim, Keynote Address at the Training Session for Regional Studies Coordinators in Baden-Württemberg, January 16, 2017) 

Triumphal Processions, Underdogs, and Fools. Humanist Pamphlets in Text and Image ( Bretten, Sunday Lecture at the Melanchthonhaus, October 23, 2016; repeated in Mannheim, conference “German Humanists, Martin Luther, and the Power of the Media,” September 22, 2017) 

Reuchlin’s Contribution to the Reading of the Bible ( Emden, Johannes a Lasco Library, conference “Renaissance Humanism: The Bible and Reform Movements of the 15th and 16th Centuries,” September 16, 2016) 

Melanchthon’s Correspondence and Johannes Reuchlin, Correspondence ( Frankfurt am Main, Goethe University workshop “The Correspondence of the Late Humanist Nicodemus Frischlin,” May 2, 2016) 

Acquisition Strategies of Private Book Owners at the Crossroads of Humanism and the Reformation ( Göttingen, conference “Reformation and the Book: Actors and Strategies for the Dissemination of Early Reformation Printed Materials,” February 23, 2016) 

Scholastics, Sheep’s Heads, and Scoundrels: Satire and Polemics in the Jewish Book Controversy (1511–1521) ( Heidelberg, Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, January 28, 2016) 

Embargo lifted. 500-year-old letters as testimonies to emotions, scandals, and minor scandals ( Pforzheim City Archives, “Monday Evening at the Archives” series, April 20, 2015) 

Nikolaus Gerbel of Pforzheim (1485–1560): Philology in the Service of Humanism and the Reformation (Pforzheim, 8th International Reuchlin Congress “Humanists and Reformers—Brothers in Spirit?”, May 24, 2014) 

Johannes Reuchlin and His “Cologne Slanderers”: The Controversy Over Jewish Books (1511–1520) and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (Cologne, Lecture Series “Tolerance? – The University of Cologne and the Limits of Academic Freedom,” November 4, 2013) 

Piety and Criticism of the Church: The Reuchlin Controversy as a Prologue to the Reformation (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Library, Annual Conference of the Wolfenbüttel Working Group for Renaissance Studies, October 16, 2013) 

Disiecta membra. Letters as a Source of Cultural History ( Heidelberg, conference “Philipp Melanchthon in 16th-Century Epistolary Culture,” September 19, 2013) 

16th-Century Paparazzi: Melanchthon’s Correspondence and the Unvarnished Truth (Heidelberg, “Wir forschen. Für Sie” series by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, July 3, 2013) 

Johannes Reuchlin and the Controversy Over Jewish Books – Religious Tolerance and Anti-Semitism on the Eve of the Reformation (Worms, Kunsthaus Museum Heylshof, Evangelical Adult Education Worms-Wonnegau, June 14, 2013) 

A Visit to the Monastery of the Soul. The Hugo de Folieto Codices of the Hohenbusch Order of the Holy Cross: Cod. 1008 and Cod. 1075 of the Diocesan and Cathedral Library of Cologne (Conference at Hohenbusch Monastery near Erkelenz, March 9, 2013) 

Basic Research or Grunt Work? Working with 500-Year-Old Letters ( Reuchling Society of Pforzheim, July 19, 2012) 

“Reuchlin’s Arrogant Nephew,” the “Curtain-Bearer of the Courtesans,” and Seventeen Colorful Coats of Arms. New Insights into the History of Humanism and the Reformation (Reuchlin Society of Pforzheim, March 8, 2012) 

Reuchlin in the Context of Renaissance Humanism ( Tübingen, lecture series “Reuchlin and the ‘Judenbücherstreit’,” January 12, 2012) 

“One Should Not Burn Jewish Books!” – Johannes Reuchlin’s *Augenspiegel* (1511) and Its Impact ( Reuchlin House, Pforzheim; lecture delivered at the opening of “Brotherhood Week,” March 13, 2011) 

Melanchthon’s Letters to Joachim Camerarius – A Reinterpretation in Light of Their New Edition (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Library, Melanchthon Conference, May 26, 2010) 

Bibliotheca trilinguis and “dimidium animae” – Johannes Reuchlin as a Book Collector (Hamburg, Conference “Libraries and Collectors Through the Ages,” May 21, 2010) 

The Tübingen Melanchthon Circle and the Wittenberg Melanchthon Circle – Myth and Reality of Two Academic Groups (Wittenberg, Melanchthon Conference, March 19, 2010) 

The Graeculus and the Irrational: Divinatory Practices in Philipp Melanchthon’s Correspondence (Geneva, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, May 28, 2009)