Corpus Reformatorum

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Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider , founder and first editor of the Corpus Reformatorum.

Corpus Reformatorum ( Corp. Ref., Cor. Ref., CR, CR ) (German Collection of Reformers , Halle (Saale) , 1834 ff.) Is the serial title of an important collection of writings by Protestant reformers of the 16th century. The series with a total of 101 volumes contains reprints of the collected works of Johannes Calvin , Philipp Melanchthon and Ulrich Zwingli , three of the leading Protestant reformers. The texts of the CR are printed in Latin , French or German .

A collection of Catholic writings from the 16th century, intended as a counterpart to the CR, was started by Professor Joseph Greving (1868-1919) from the University of Bonn . The project was presented in 1915 in the magazine Theologische Revue as a plan for a Corpus Catholicorum .

history

The Corpus Reformatorum project was - based on the initiative of the German scientist and theologian Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider - in planning since shortly after 1827. From 1834 until his death in 1848 Bretschneider was also the responsible editor.

List of publishers

The Corpus Reformatorum online

A number of volumes have so far been placed online on Google Books . Not all volumes are available. A number of the digitized volumes are no longer available in full text.

Series I: Philipp Melanchthon, Opera Quae Supersunt Omnia - Volumes 1–28

Volumes 1–15 Ed. Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider. Volumes 16–28, edited by Heinrich Ernst Bindseil.

Series II: Johannes Calvin, Opera Quae Supersunt Omnia - Volumes 29-87

Ed. Guilielmus Baum, Eduardus Cunitz, Eduardus Reuss.

  • Opp. = Opera Quae Supersunt Omnia.

Series III: Huldreich Zwingli, Complete Works - Volumes 88-101

The Institute for the History of the Swiss Reformation at the University of Zurich provides the following full texts:

literature

  • An English-language finding guide to John Calvin Opera quae supersunt omnia, edited by Guilielmus Baum, Eduardus Cunitz, and Eduardus Reuss; Calvin Opera 1–59, Corpus reformatorum 29–88, Brunswick and Berlin, 1863–1900, John Lee Thompson, Pasadena, Calif., John L. Thompson, 1995 [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Fortnightly review , ed., Arthur Preuss, St. Louis, Missouri, Volume XXVI, No. 21, November 1, 1919, p. 332
  2. ↑ Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider . - Schaff-Duke

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