Correspondence between theologians in the southwestern part of the empire in the early modern period (1550–1620)

About the database: https://thbw.hadw-bw.de

Video report about the work of the research center

The task and goal of the research project is to collect, index, and partially edit the letters of all leading theologians and church leaders in the Electoral Palatinate, Württemberg, and Strasbourg from 1550 to 1620. An evaluation of the letters from this period is particularly well suited to clarifying confessionalization and its consequences in the early modern period. Correspondence is a particularly fruitful source if one not only catalogs the correspondence of individual persons, but also examines as completely as possible the letters of certain groups of persons in selected regions during specific periods. This makes it possible to identify networks and patterns of general validity become more easily visible. Since theologians played a key role in the development of the confessions, their letters provide particularly valuable information about the motives and mechanisms of confessionalization.

Portraits from: Boissard, Bibliotheca chalcographica, Heidelberg/Frankfurt am Main 1652–1669 (Source:University of Mannheim, MARABU)

With approximately 200 relevant individuals, a corpus of approximately 35,000 letters is expected. This large quantity of documents will be recorded in a database (https://thbw.hadw-bw.de/) using basic data (sender, addressee, date, incipit, keywords relating to content, etc.), with some of them also being reproduced as digital copies of the handwritten originals and a more limited selection also being transcribed. In addition, around 1,000 letters that are particularly relevant to the question of the connection between confessionalization, territorial state formation, and secularization are to be edited and annotated. The recording and editing of the letters is accompanied by an evaluation of their content with regard to these central themes. Doctoral students involved in the project are evaluating individual correspondence in a targeted manner. Last but not least, the data from the recorded letters will serve as a basis for the reconstruction and analysis of the correspondence networks of Southwestern German theologians.

The work of the research center

The collection, cataloguing, and exemplary edition of the correspondence of all leading theologians of the Electoral Palatinate, Württemberg, and Strasbourg from 1550 to 1620 should shed light on the relationships outlined above. The project will take into account theology professors from the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen as well as the Strasbourg Academy, as well as superintendents and court preachers who were significant in terms of territorial or church history during the period in question. This involves more than 200 individuals and approximately 35,000 letters. Of these, the thousand most important letters will be edited and annotated. This large amount of source material can only be managed by recording the majority of it in rudimentary form, reproducing another part as a reproduction of the handwritten original, and offering a more limited selection in transcribed form. The most important letters will be edited and annotated.

Letter database:https://thbw.hadw-bw.de/

Significance of the Theologians' Letters

An evaluation of the letters from this period is particularly well suited to clarifying confessionalization and its consequences in the early modern period. Correspondence is a particularly fruitful source if one not only examines the correspondence of individual persons, but also takes a comprehensive look at the letters of certain groups of people in selected regions during specific periods. This makes it possible to identify networks and reveals patterns of general validity more easily. Since theologians played a key role in the development of the confessions, their letters provide particularly valuable information about the motives and mechanisms of confessionalization.

Why the Southwest?

Between 1550 and 1620, three competing models of the Reformation developed in the southwestern part of the empire: a Lutheran model (Württemberg, University of Tübingen), a Reformed model (Electorate of the Palatinate, University of Heidelberg), and an "Upper German" model (Strasbourg).

These different denominational forms of Protestantism in the southwest had a strong influence on each other, particularly by increasingly distinguishing themselves from one another. However, they also had a supraregional, even international impact. The Strasbourg model of the Reformation influenced Calvin's Reformation, for example, while the Tübingen theologian Jacob Andreae played a leading role in the formation of the Lutheran confession throughout the German-speaking world. Reformed Protestantism in the Electoral Palatinate, with the University of Heidelberg, developed into a political bastion and intellectual center of Calvinism in Europe until 1620. This region thus made a significant, yet still insufficiently recognized contribution to the history of the European Reformation.

Contribution to the historiography of the early modern period

The period between the Peace of Augsburg and the Thirty Years' War has received particular attention in historical studies in recent decades. Since the 1980s, the prevailing interpretation that the path to modernity can essentially be described as secularization, i.e., a decline in the relevance and normativity of religion for the state and society, has been fundamentally questioned. Rather, the confessionalization that began as a result of the Reformation was also an eminently modernizing process. A more precise definition of the relationship between secularization and confessionalization is currently a central question in early modern historiography. It also has significant implications for the interpretation of the history of Western civilization as a whole, right up to the current question of the role of religion in public life.

dissertation projects

The doctoral students at the research center evaluate the data sets on individual correspondence in their dissertation projects. One focus of their research is on the motives behind confessional polemics, the mechanisms of confessionalization, and the profiling of intra-Protestant doctrines of difference in the work of important representatives of controversy theology in Württemberg, the Electoral Palatinate, and Strasbourg.

Current dissertation projects:

The written legacy of Johannes Parsimonius, abbot of Hirsau (1525–1588), in the context of his time [working title]

Elise Gang

In addition to key figures such as Jakob Andreae, Johannes Brenz the Elder, and Thomas Erastus, there were countless other clergymen who spread and taught the Lutheran and Reformed denominations throughout the empire. One of these was Johannes Karg, later abbot of Hirsau Abbey, or Johannes Parsimonius in Latin. He wrote a large number of (unpublished) works, most of which have not yet been studied. These are extremely interesting, precisely because they are not limited to theological content, but also include two world histories and summaries for teaching at the monastery school. In addition, Parsimonius corresponded extensively with leading theologians of his time (including Andreae and Brenz) and intervened in both the Augsburg calendar dispute and the Augsburg hell dispute, which has hardly been researched to date. All this makes him a very multifaceted personality. As part of the dissertation project, Parsimonius's written legacy will therefore be comprehensively examined, with a focus on his correspondence.

Official changes of religion and their consequences.

Religious policy in the Electoral Palatinate under Ludwig VI (1576–1583) and Johann Casimir (1583–1592)

Marcel Böhme

The Electoral Palatinate, one of the most important secular territories in the Old Empire with its center in Heidelberg and the remote Upper Palatinate, underwent several changes of denomination in the 16th century, each time coinciding with a change of ruler. Due to the sovereign's ius reformandi, the religious and confessional history here was unique. Under Elector Frederick III, a center of Reformed Protestantism with European connections was formed. The reign of his son, Elector Louis VI, who reintroduced Lutheranism, was also significant for confessionalization in the southwest of the Empire. No study has yet been conducted on the re-Lutheranization. Under the electoral administrator Johann Casimir, the Electoral Palatinate finally returned to the Reformed confession. A systematic analysis of the internal Protestant confessional changes and their effects is a research desideratum that will be addressed in the dissertation. At the same time, the profiles of key church leaders (general superintendents, court preachers) will be determined on the basis of their correspondence, which will be made available for the first time in the course of the research project Theologenbriefwechsel (Theologians' Correspondence). By researching the changes in denomination, the dissertation aims to contribute to the understanding of denominational plurality during the period under investigation.

Completed dissertation projects:

"Concordia et Confessio."

The mediation activities of Lutheran theologian Jakob Andreae

Stefan Aderhold

Jakob Andreae undoubtedly played a key role in Lutheran confessionalization. Nevertheless, there are only a few publications that deal with his life and influence in detail. Moreover, these contributions offer conflicting assessments of his involvement in confessional processes. While some emphasize his uncompromising harshness in the conflict situations of his time, others highlight his pragmatic openness. Both perspectives are united in the ambiguity of his personality. On the one hand, he tried to downplay profound disagreements as verbal disputes, while on the other hand, he passionately defended what he considered to be the core of theological truth. This research contribution will examine his definition of the relationship between concordia and confessio in different conflict situations and its significance for Lutheran confessionalization. Due to the dialogical character of his theology, his correspondence will be given special consideration.

So that they may "govern according to the word of God, not according to their own understanding."

The common good and tolerance in the political-theological semantics of Johannes Brenz (1499-1570)

Theresa Möke

The Württemberg theologian Johannes Brenz (1499-1570) wrote that princes "should rule according to the word of God, not according to their own reason," and made this the declared goal of his political work. As a young student in Heidelberg in 1518, he met Martin Luther, immediately became enthusiastic about his theses, and has been "burning" for the Reformation ever since, which he soon played a decisive role in shaping in the southwest of the empire. As a political thinker and advisor, the theologian acquired a distinctly striking profile. Sought out for advice by Protestant-minded princes, Brenz drew on biblical traditions to develop new ideas and concepts for good governance.

Based on sources newly accessed in the academy project "Theologian Correspondence" starting in 2017, the dissertation highlights the extent to which Brenz influenced politics and the norms and values he formulated for the establishment of good governance. This research aims to fill the gap in the systematic examination of Brenz's political work and thinking.

The dissertation was published in 2024 (see Publications).

"The Greeks also learned from this."

Martin Crusius' (1526-1607) efforts to establish Lutheranism among the Greeks

Paul A. Neuendorf

The dissertation examines the written and practical efforts of the Tübingen scholar Martin Crusius to spread Lutheran doctrine among Greek Orthodox Christians. During the contact between the Württemberg regional church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople from 1573 to 1581, Crusius made it his personal goal to preach Lutheranism among the Greeks on the one hand and to help the Greek education system flourish on the other. To this end, the Tübingen professor wrote and compiled a total of seven works on religious practice, theoretical teaching, and denominational demarcation. Based on a complete evaluation of Crusius' diary, the study examines in detail the persistence with which the professor of the arts faculty pursued this goal for decades despite countless adversities, and the practical missionary attempts he undertook when Greeks visited him in Tübingen.

In addition, the dissertation offers the first editions of 54 Lutheran hymns translated into Greek by Crusius and 24 other key texts.

The dissertation was published in 2022 (see Publications).

Database of theologians' correspondence

Theonline database of theologians' correspondence has been active since July 2020. New data records relating to the project and its contents will be published on this page in stages.

head of research

Prof. Dr. Christoph Strohm

staff

Dr. Sabine Arend
Marcel Böhme
Dr. Daniel Degen
Damian Domke
Elise Gang
Dr. Max Graff
Dr. Judith Steiniger
Associate Professor Dr. Thomas Wilhelmi(associate)

former

Stefan Aderhold
Dr. Stephen E. Buckwalter
Dr. Gerald Dörner
Dr. Theresa Möke
Dr. Paul Neuendorf

auxiliary personnel

Aaron Lee Dietrich
Madlena Felsinger
Celia Charlotte Ganz
Leo Sebastian Groll
Simon Heyne
Lena Kliemke
Hannah-Pheline Schütte
Leon Wolter
Michael Woodard
Qingyuan Xu

Members of the commission accompanying the project

Prof. Dr. Matthieu Arnold (Strasbourg)
Dr. Reinhard Bodenmann (Zurich)
Prof. Dr. Tobias Bulang (Heidelberg)
Professor Amy Nelson Burnett (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Prof. Dr. Michael Gertz (Heidelberg)
Prof. Dr. Sabine Holtz (Stuttgart)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzem (Tübingen)
Prof. Dr. Armin Kohnle (Leipzig)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen (Heidelberg)
Prof. Dr. Torsten Schrade (Mainz Academy)
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Winnacker (Erlangen)
Prof. Dr. Eike Wolgast, Chairman (Heidelberg)

Publications by the research center

ThBW 3: Correspondence between Theologians in the Southwest of the Empire in the Early Modern Period (1550-1620). Critical Selected Edition, Volume 3: Strasbourg I (1549-1577), edited by Christoph Strohm, compiled by Stefan Aderhold, Sabine Arend, Marcel Böhme, Stephen E. Buckwalter, Daniel Degen, Gerald Dörner, Max Graff, Judith Steiniger, and Thomas Wilhelmi (Sources and Research on the History of the Reformation 109), Gütersloh 2024.

Stefan Aderhold: Concordia et Confessio. The Mediation Work of Lutheran Theologian Jakob Andreae, Diss. theol. Univ. Heidelberg 2024.

Theresa Möke: Common Good and Tolerance in the Political-Theological Semantics of Johannes Brenz (1499-1570), Diss. phil. Heidelberg, Munich 2024.

Ramona Roller/Frank Schweitzer/Christoph Strohm: The Role of Neighborhood Relations in Confessionalization, in: Reformation and Renaissance Review 2024, pp. 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2024.2426084.

Christoph Strohm: Religion, Law, and Secularization in the Early Modern Period. On the Cultural Signature of Western Christianity, Heidelberg 2024.

Southwest German Theologians' Correspondence. Insights into Church and Cultural History. Christoph Strohm on his 65th Birthday, edited by Marcel Böhme, Max Graff, and Judith Steiniger, Heidelberg 2023 (Heidelberg Research 48), including:

Stefan Aderhold: Courage to tell the truth. Jakob Andreae's mediation strategies against the backdrop of contemporary intra- and interdenominational dialogue (pp. 17–40)
Sabine Arend: Bartholomäus Hagen in the force field of religion and politics in Württemberg (pp. 41–57)
Marcel Böhme: Perception of differences in Melanchthon's opinion on the Eucharistic controversy. The transition of the Electoral Palatinate to Reformed Protestantism between 1559 and 1561 as reflected in the letters of Paul Einhorn (pp. 59–90)
Stephen E. Buckwalter: Chronicle of a Death Foretold. From the letters of the Mülhausen pastor Konrad Finck to Konrad Hubert (January 1560–August 1561) (pp. 91–101)
Daniel Degen: Indispensable, too old, too weak. The negative responses of Württemberg theologians to appointments in the Duchy of Prussia (pp. 103–117)
Gerald Dörner: "Guest workers in the Lord's vineyard." The activities of Württemberg church servants outside the Duchy of Württemberg (pp. 119-135)
Max Graff: Family and Denomination. On Victorinus Strigel's Letters to Erhard and Dietrich Schnepf (pp. 137–159)
Judith Steiniger: New Year's greetings to Strasbourg. A poem letter from Wilhelm Bidembach to Johannes Marbach from 1568 (pp. 161-175)
Thomas WilhelmiMatthias Erb and the question of images (pp. 177–188).
- Review of this volume by Herbert Jaumann in: Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken (IFB). Digital review journal for libraries and academia 32.1 (2024), No. 8902 (http://informationsmittel-fuer-bibliotheken.de/showfile.php?id=12421).

Moritz Arndt/Max Graff: The Double Johannes Sylvanus. A Biographical Clarification, in: Blätter für Pfälzische Kirchengeschichte und religiöse Volkskunde 90 (2023), pp. 103–108.

Sabine Arend: Confessional Education in a Protestant Imperial City. Sources on the educational, social, and musical history of the Esslingen Collegium Alumnorum 1598-1810 (Sources and Research on the History of the Reformation 105), Gütersloh 2023. This publication was awarded the Dr. Fritz Landenberger Prize for the Promotion of Research on the History of Esslingen in 2024.

Max Graff: Intercepted letters and a refused signature. The dismissal of Heidelberg theology professor Edo Hilderich as reflected in written sources, in: Archive for Reformation History 114 (2023), pp. 197–227.

Max Graff: "Bring me beer / I am so thirsty." Early modern drinking culture in contemporary sources, in: Archive for Cultural History 105/1 (2023), pp. 91-110.

Max Graff: Denomination, Polemics, and Good Cheese: What Did Theologians Write to Each Other in the 16th Century? The 10,000th Theologian Letter Is Online, in: Athene. Magazine of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 1/2023, pp. 27–28.

Christoph Strohm: Augustine as an Authority for Martin Bucer and in the Debates surrounding the Cologne Reformation, in: Günter Frank/Volker Leppin/Herman J. Selderhuis/Klaus Unterburger (eds.), Totus noster? Augustine between the Denominations (Refo500 Academic Studies 93), Göttingen 2023, pp. 97–114.

Christoph Strohm: Cultural Signature of Western Christianity. Observations Based on Examples from Early Modern Theological Correspondence, in: Athene. Magazine of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 1/2023, pp. 15–17.

Christoph Strohm: Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer, and the Reformed Reformation. Selected Studies (Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation 137), Tübingen 2023.

ThBW 2: Correspondence between Theologians in the Southwest of the Empire in the Early Modern Period (1550-1620). Critical Selected Edition, Volume 2: Electoral Palatinate I (1556-1583), edited by Christoph Strohm, compiled by Stefan Aderhold, Sabine Arend, Marcel Böhme, Stephen E. Buckwalter, Daniel Degen, Gerald Dörner, Max Graff, Judith Steiniger, and Thomas Wilhelmi (Sources and Research on the History of the Reformation 99), Gütersloh 2022.

Reviews of this volume by:
- Udo Wennemuth, in: Yearbook for Baden Church and Religious History 17 (2023), pp. 227–230.
- Ingo Klitzsch, in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 123, Issue 1 (2024), p. 121f. (https://cris.uni-muenster.de/portal/publication/128205834)
- Nelly Eisenreich, in: Journal for Historical Research 51 (2024), pp. 166–168.
- Hermann Ehmer, in: Journal of Württemberg Regional History 83 (2024), pp. 567–569.

Paul A. Neuendorf, "Daraus kündten auch die Graeci lärnen"(From this, even the Greeks learned). The efforts of Martin Crusius (1526–1607) to establish Lutheranism among the Greeks, Heidelberg 2022.https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.820.

Thomas Wilhelmi: Letters found in a manuscript collection from the Hamburg Clergy Ministry, in: Archive for Reformation History 113 (2022), pp. 313–326.

Letter of the Month. Correspondence between Theologians in the Southwest of the Empire in the Early Modern Period (1550–1620), in: Athene. Magazine of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 1 (2021), p. 39f.

Sabine Arend, The Angelic Apparition of Dürrmenz in 1563. Theological and Political Implications of a Lay Prophecy in Protestant Württemberg. With an edition of the expert opinions of Johannes Brenz, Valentin Vannius, and Johannes Magirus, in: Zeitschrift für württembergische Landesgeschichte 80 (2021), pp. 181–220.

Max Graff, Ein ingens incendium als böses Omen. Victorinus Strigel über den Heidelberger Schlossbrand im Jahr 1569, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 169 (2021), pp. 223–231 (published in 2022).

Max Graff, Drinking and Alcoholism in Early Modern Sources, in: Signa Ivris. Contributions to Legal Iconography, Legal Archaeology, and Legal Folklore 18 (2021), pp. 211–239.

Christoph Strohm: The Impact of the Zurich Reformation on the Southwest of the Empire, in: Ariane Albisser/Peter Opitz (eds.), The Zurich Reformation in Europe. Contributions from the conference of the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, February 6–8, 2019, in Zurich (ZBRG 29), Zurich 2021, pp. 437–456.

ThBW 1: Correspondence between Theologians in the Southwest of the Empire in the Early Modern Period (1550-1620). Critical Selected Edition, Volume 1: Württemberg I (1548-1570), edited by Christoph Strohm, compiled by Sabine Arend, Stephen E. Buckwalter, Daniel Degen, Gerald Dörner, Max Graff, Theresa Möke, Paul A. Neuendorf, and Thomas Wilhelmi (Sources and Research on the History of the Reformation 96), Gütersloh 2020.

Review of this volume by Hermann Ehmer, in : Zeitschrift für württembergische Landesgeschichte 80 (2021), pp. 650–652.

Sabine Arend, Between Self-Care and Hypochondria. Georg Ernst von Henneberg (1511–1583) in Correspondence with His Personal Physician Thomas Erastus (1524–1583), in: Dinges, Martin / Pfütsch, Pierre (eds.), Masculinities in Early Modernity. Body, Health, and Illness (1500–1850) (Medicine, Society, and History, Supplements 76), Stuttgart 2020, pp. 307–329.

Daniel Degen, Digital Indexing of Theologians' Correspondence, in: Annual Journal of the Faculty of Theology at Heidelberg University 15 (2020), pp. 28–30.

Christoph Strohm, 1563: Heidelberg Catechism – Worldwide Success Story of a Book of Teaching and Comfort, in: Andreas Fahrmeir (ed.), Germany. Global History of a Nation, Munich 2020, pp. 205–209.

Christoph Strohm, The Profile of Reformed Protestantism in the Electoral Palatinate as Exemplified by Abraham Scultetus, in: Blätter für Pfälzische Kirchengeschichte 87 (2020), pp. 1–12.

Christoph Strohm, Abraham Scultetus’s sermon of thanksgiving on the occasion of the wedding celebrations in Heidelberg, in: Nichola M. V. Hayton/Hanns Hubach/Marco Neumaier (eds.), Churfürstlicher Hochzeitlicher HeimführungsTriumph. Inszenzierung und Wirkung der Hochzeit Kurfürst Friedrichs V. mit Elisabeth Stuart (1613), Ubstadt-Weiher/Heidelberg/Speyer 2020, pp. 309−326 [already published at the end of 2019].

"A sheet of papyrus and a little ink." A new research center at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences is cataloging the correspondence of Southwest German theologians (1550–1620), in: Momente. Beiträge zur Landeskunde von Baden-Württemberg 3 (2017), pp. 27–31.

Sabine Arend, "Although the old rockh will be difficult to repair with a new patch, he will do his best." Johannes Brenz and church politics in Jülich-Kleve-Berg in the second half of the 16th century, in: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 151 (2015) [published in 2017], pp. 417-488.

Sabine Arend, In the Confessional Network: The County of Nassau-Dillenburg in the 16th Century, in: Wunder, Heide/ Jendorff, Alexander/ Schmidt, Carina (eds.), Reformation – Confession – Conversion: Adel und Religion zwischen Rheingau und Siegerland im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert (Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau 88), Wiesbaden 2017, pp. 75–96. Also reprinted in: Nassauische Annalen 128 (2017), pp. 75–96.

Max Graff, Tagungsbericht: Probleme digitaler Erfassung und Edition von Briefwechseln. Theologenbriefwechsel im Südwesten des Reichs in der Frühen Neuzeit (1550-1620). 22.03.2017–23.03.2017, Heidelberg, in: H-Soz-Kult, 24.05.2017, <www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7185> .

Christoph Strohm, Theologenbriefwechsel im Südwesten des Reichs in der Frühen Neuzeit (1550-1620) (Theological Correspondence in the Southwest of the Empire in the Early Modern Period (1550-1620)). On the Relevance of a Research Project (Writings of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 57), Heidelberg 2017.

Christoph Strohm, Martin Bucer and the History of the Reformation in Southwest Germany, in: ibid./Thomas Wilhelmi (eds.), Martin Bucer, the Third German Reformer (Academy Conferences, 26), Heidelberg 2017, 29-51.

Alfried Wieczorek – Christoph Strohm – Stefan Weinfurter (eds.), Reformation! The Southwest and Europe. Companion volume to the exhibition (Publications of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums Mannheim 81), Regensburg 2017. In it:

Christoph Strohm, The Electoral Palatinate and the West, pp. 89–99;
Christoph Strohm, Confessional Formation in Southwest Germany and Its Significance for Europe, pp. 101–111;
Christoph Strohm, Heidelberg Catechism, p. 219f.;
Thomas Wilhelmi, Portrait Medal of Martin Bucer, p. 158;
Thomas Wilhelmi, Manuscript with sermons by Johannes Brenz, pp. 149–151;
Thomas Wilhelmi, Facsimile of Martin Bucer's Strasbourg Hymnal, pp. 154–155.

Max Graff – Thomas Wilhelmi, Correspondence between Theologians in the 16th/17th Century. On the Procedure for Collecting and Indexing Such Correspondence. In: Philipp Melanchthon in the Letter-Writing Culture of the 16th Century, Heidelberg 2015, pp. 51–70.

Links to cooperation partners

The research center collaborates with the following partners:

Bamberg State Library
Basel University Library
State Archives of the Canton of Bern
Edition of Nikodemus Frischlin's correspondence, Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg, DFG research project
University Library of Giessen
Gotha Research Library
State and University Library Hamburg
Melanchthon Correspondence, Heidelberg, Research Center of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
Heidelberg University Library
Nicolaus Matz Library (church library) Michelstadt
State Archives of Nuremberg
Strasbourg City Archives (Archives de la Ville et de l’Eurométropole de Strasbourg)
State Archives of Baden-Württemberg, Main State Archives Department, Stuttgart
State Church Archive Stuttgart
University Archives with University Library Tübingen
State Archives of Baden-Württemberg, Wertheim State Archives Department
Early modern medical letters from German-speaking countries (1500-1700), Würzburg, Research Center of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Zofingen Public Library
State Archives of the Canton of Zurich
Bullinger Correspondence Edition, University of Zurich

News

Currentletter of the month

Number of letters currently published: see here.

The third volume of the edition, Strasbourg I (1549–1577), was publishedin November 2024 (see Publications).

In December 2023, the TV channel Regio TV Bodensee aired a report on the work of our research center. You can find the video here.

In February 2023, the 10,000th letter was cataloged and published online.

The second volume,Kurpfalz I (1556–1583), waspublishedin November 2022 (see Publications).

In September 2022, Paul Neuendorf's dissertation "Die Bemühungen des Martin Crusius (1526-1607) um ein Luthertum der Griechen" (Martin Crusius' (1526-1607) efforts to establish Lutheranism among the Greeks) was published (see Publications).

February 9–10, 2022: Workshop onthe possibilities of computer-assisted analysis of historical correspondence

In December 2020, the critical selection edition Württemberg I (1548-1570)was published(see Publications).

Theonline database of theologians' correspondencehas been active since July 2020.