Archive for the history of the Reformation
| Archive for the history of the Reformation. International journal for research on the Reformation and its impact on the world
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| description | German magazine for church history |
| publishing company | Gütersloher publishing house |
| First edition | 1904 |
| Web link | Publishing site |
| ISSN (print) | 0003-9381 |
The Archive for the History of the Reformation (ARG) is a scientific journal that focuses on the age of the European Reformation . The subtitle is accordingly “International Journal for Research on the Reformation and its World Impact”.
Editor and publisher
The magazine, published on behalf of the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte and the Society for Reformation Research, is currently published by the Gütersloh publishing house, each with a volume of around 320 pages per year . The European editorial team is headed by Thomas Kaufmann , University of Göttingen, and Martin Keßler, University of Basel, who are responsible for articles in German, French and Italian. Ute Lotz-Heumann and Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, both from the University of Arizona, are responsible for the North American editorial team, which is responsible for all articles in English.
history
The first year of the magazine appeared in 1903/04. Until his death in 1938, Walter Friedensburg acted as the first editor in connection with the Association for the History of the Reformation. During this time, the ARG primarily served the “publication of source pieces [...] on the history of the Reformation in the narrower sense, i. H. on the history of the development of the Lutheran Reformation on German soil ”.
In 1938 Gerhard Ritter was appointed as the new publisher, who, together with Otto Scheel and Heinrich Bornkamm , the first and second chairmen of the association, developed a new concept for the magazine. This included a thematic expansion to include non-German and non-Lutheran aspects of the history of the Reformation, a greater significance of specialist articles compared to source publications, approaches of an interdisciplinary working method and the acquisition of foreign authors. However, the political framework conditions were anything but conducive to these objectives; the arrest of Ritter by the Gestapo in November 1944 interrupted work on the ARG for some time. Bornkamm had the first two issues of the 41st year set at Hiersemann in Leipzig, but they could not appear until 1948 at Mohr-Siebeck in Tübingen.
In 1951 the magazine was published by Bertelsmann again after a cooperation between the Association for Reformation History and the North American Society for Reformation Research had been agreed in advance with the aim of "publishing a bilingual magazine", which in future would be published in 1938 should achieve formulated goals. Since then, the publication has had the English parallel title Archive for Reformation History , has an international group of editors and an editorial team on both sides of the Atlantic. In the following period there was a thematic expansion in the direction of a “universal historical perspective” and an increasing degree of “interdisciplinarity” and “interdenominationalism”. The first half-yearly publication was given up in favor of annual volumes; Since 1972, a literature report has been published as an annual supplement, which has established itself as an annotated bibliography on the history of the Reformation (1450–1650).
In the anniversary volume for the 125th anniversary of the Association for the History of the Reformation, a list with the 1190 articles published in the ARG between 1903 and 2006 was published using a multi-part index.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Ritter, Heinrich Bornkamm, Otto Scheel: To the redesign of our magazine . In: ARG , 35, 1938, H. 1/2, p. 1.
- ↑ Heinz Schilling, Anne Jacobson Schutte, Susan C. Karant-Nunn: Hundred Years Archive for Reformation History / Archive for Reformation History . In: ARG , 100, 2009, p. 8, cf. Christoph Cornelißen : Editor in difficult times: Gerhard Ritter . In: Matthias Middell (Ed.) Historical magazines in international comparison . Leipzig 1999, p. 180 f.
- ^ Gerhard Ritter, Roland H. Bainton, Harold J. Grimm, Günter Bornkamm: Our program . In: ARG , 42, 1951, p. 9.
- ↑ Schilling, Schutte, Karant-Nunn: Hundred Years Archive for Reformation History / Archive for Reformation History . In: ARG , 100, 2009, p. 10.
- ↑ Luise Schorn-Schütte (Ed.): 125 Years Association for Reformation History . Gütersloh 2008, p. 284 ff.