Mennonite Lexicon

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Mennonite Lexicon

description multi-volume encyclopedia
Area of ​​Expertise Church history, especially Anabaptism / Mennonites
language German
publishing company Self-published / Heinrich Schneider (Germany)
First edition 1913
editor Christian Hege , Christian Neff , Harold S. Bender , Ernst Crous , Gerhard Hein, Hans-Jürgen Goertz
Web link www.mennlex.de

The Mennonite Lexicon is a multi-volume encyclopedia in German and depicts the theology, people and history of the Anabaptist movement and especially of the Mennonites .

Edition history

The first four volumes were created between 1913 and 1967. All volumes appeared in deliveries.

The first volume is dated to 1913, but a number of deliveries followed from this point in time: The closing words to the 1st volume dates from 1924, because in May 1913 they (Christian Hege and Christian Neff) gave the as a test delivery with as varied a content as possible first delivery out. How did, in spite of unusual difficulties, in particular through the First World War and the inflation was caused, to guide the first band to end, shows the closing remarks of 6 September 1924th

The second volume was completed in February 1937 after overcoming new difficulties.

From 1938 to 1942, Hege and Neff published six deliveries of the third volume, i. H. Pp. 1-288. Circumstances of war and paper shortages prevented the work from continuing; the two also died in 1943 and 1946 respectively. “Since 1947, the undersigned have continued the work as successors and brought it to the end of the letter R in six further deliveries. So today we can complete the third volume. "

The fourth volume was published in 14 deliveries by 1967.

In the fourth volume there is a price list, according to which a volume after “completion of the work” cost 60.00 DM (full linen) or 68.00 DM (half leather) depending on the type of binding; a reprint from 1986 costs EUR 58.89 per volume.

Forty years later, the Mennonite History Association commissioned a fifth volume as a revision and supplement.

Since 2007, volume V of the lexicon has been worked on. In July 2010, Part 1: People, the first of three planned parts, was completed. The second part contains historical and theological keywords and has been gradually put online since May 2011. It has now been completed. The third part, which deals with areas of distribution and organizations of worldwide Mennonism, began in 2013 with the article “Berlin” and was completed in 2020.

Bibliographical information

  • DNB 457571373 - Title recording of volumes 1–4 at the German National Library
  • Volume I: Mennonite Lexicon. First volume. Edited by Christian Hege, Christian Neff. Self-published by the editors, Frankfurt am Main / Weierhof (Pfalz) 1913–24.
  • Volume II: Mennonite Lexicon. Second volume: Friedrich - Moravia. Edited by Christian Hege, Christian Neff. Self-published by the publisher, Frankfurt am Main / Weierhof (Pfalz) 1937.
  • Volume III: Mennonite Lexicon. Started by Christian Hege † and Christian Neff †, continued by Harold S. Bender and Ernst Crous. Third volume: Mainz - Ryke. Printed and published by Heinrich Schneider, Karlsruhe 1958.
  • Volume IV: Mennonite Lexicon. Started by Christian Hege † and Christian Neff †, continued by Harold S. Bender † and Ernst Crous † and Gerhard Hein. Fourth volume: Saarburg - Zylis. Printed and published by Heinrich Schneider, Karlsruhe 1967 (reprint 1986).
  • Volume V: Mennonite Lexicon (MennLex). Volume V: Revision and addition. Part 1: People. Part 2: history, culture, theology. Part 3: Dissemination, Communities, Organizations. On behalf of the Mennonite History Association, ed. by Hans-Jürgen Goertz with the participation of Jelle Bosma, Fernando Enns , Josef Enzenberger, Daniel W. Geiser-Oppliger, Mark Jantzen, Diether Götz Lichdi . O. O., 2010–2020 (Previously, as of August 2020, only on the Internet at www.mennlex.de . There is a subscription offer for publication in book form.).

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold S. Bender, Ernst Crous: Foreword to the 3rd volume. In: Mennonite Lexicon. Volume 3 (1958), unpaginated page.
  2. ↑ Ernst Crous, Gerhard Hein: Foreword to the 4th volume. In: Mennonite Lexicon. Volume 4 (1967), unpaginated page.
  3. ↑ On an unpaginated page between the foreword and p. 1 of the fourth volume (1967).
  4. ↑ Books available from the Mennonite History Association. In: mennonitischer-geschichtsverein.de, accessed on August 30, 2020.
  5. ^ Wolfgang Schultz, Bernhard Thiessen: Berlin. In: mennlex.de, accessed on May 1, 2013 (last changed on May 9, 2020).
  6. ^ Foreword to Volume V of the Mennonite Lexicon. Revision and addition. In: mennlex.de, accessed on August 18, 2020.
  7. ↑ On the title page of the first volume it says only 1913; see. the edition history section .
  8. ↑ See Subscription Mennonite Lexicon Volume V (part volumes 1–3). In: mennonitischer-geschichtsverein.de, accessed on August 18, 2020.