Sources on the history of the Anabaptists

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Sources for the history of the Anabaptists (abbreviated: QGT) is the title of an extensive collection of documents from the Reformation Anabaptist movement . Until the third volume in this series, which appeared in 1938, its title was Sources for the History of Anabaptists (abbreviated: QGWT). The publication of this collection of sources, the beginnings of which go back to 1919 and which has not yet been completed, is done on behalf of the Association for the History of the Reformation . The original plan was to include the Swiss Anabaptist documents in the QGT. However, the aftermath of World War II led to a separate collection of Anabaptist documents. The title of this also unfinished series is Sources on the History of the Anabaptists in Switzerland (abbreviated: QGTS). The first volume in this series, edited by Leonhard von Muralt and Walter Schmid, was published in Zurich in 1952 .

history

Regions of the Anabaptist Movement (1525–1550)

After source material on the history of the Anabaptists had already been more or less systematically collected in various regions of Germany, the Association for the History of the Reformation decided on a long-term and as comprehensive as possible edition of documents of the Anabaptist movement. A special commission was set up to implement this decision. Their task was to fix the content and time of the collection, then to structure it from a territorial point of view and to find persons responsible for the individual areas. The work received substantial support from the Mennonite History Association and the Mennonite church historians Christian Hege and Christian Neff . Gustav Bossert, sen., Was one of the first to recruit the commission . , Leonhard von Muralt and Johann Loserth . The latter published source material on the history of the Upper German Anabaptists in the 16th century as early as 1929.

Only in 1930, due to the economic problems of the 1920s, was the first volume able to go to print with generous financial support from the Prussian state. It appeared in Leipzig and contained the Anabaptist files of the Duchy of Württemberg . The editor was Gustav Bossert, junior, son of the aforementioned Bossert, who had died five years before the publication, but had played a major role in this first volume. Until the beginning of the Second World War, two more volumes were published ( Markgraftum Brandenburg , Department I of the Bavarian QGWT; testimonies of beliefs from Upper German baptismal people I ). The name of the collection was changed between these two volumes. The sources on the history of the Anabaptists were sources for the history of the Baptist renamed. With this name change one wanted to take into account the fact that the term Anabaptists has a polemical origin.

The first post-war volume, published in Gütersloh in 1951 , presents the Baden and Palatinate sources on Anabaptist history. In the same year it was followed by a volume with Anabaptist files from the Free Imperial Cities of Regensburg , Kaufbeuren , Rothenburg ob der Tauber , Nördlingen , Schweinfurt and Weißenburg . As Quellenwerk Bayern, Department II, it is the continuation of Volume II of the QGWT. Other regional collections relate to the history of the Anabaptists in Alsace (Volume VII, VIII, XV, XVI), Austria (Volume XI, XIII, XIV). The second part of the religious testimonies of Upper German baptized people was published in 1967 as Volume XII. The so far youngest volume of the OGT also refers to Upper Germany. It contains the so-called art book by Jörg Probst Rotenfelder , called painter . This is the publication of an early collection of Anabaptist writings from the years 1527 to 1552. It was discovered in 1955 by Heinold Fast in the Bern Burger Library under the shelf number Cod. 464 and has been a focus of his research for decades.

The principle of the territorial system was broken for the first time in 1955. In that year and subsequently in 1956 and 1960, three volumes were published with a bibliography and the collected religious and exegetical writings of Hans Denck . Volume IX, published in 1962 under the editorship of Gunnar Westin and Torsten Bergsten , also deviates from the principle mentioned. It contains the collected writings of the Baptist martyr Balthasar Hubmaier . Volume X, published in 1962 by Hans-Joachim Hillerbrand, also occupies a special position within the QGWT / QGT; it contains a bibliography on the history of Anabaptism from 1520 to 1630.

In the XVIII. Volume of the QGT, the catalog of Hutterite manuscripts and prints from Hutterite possession in Europe , edited by Matthias H. Rauert and Martin Rothkegel, edited by Gottfried Seebaß (2011), describes 462 manuscripts, prints and printed works from the former property of the Hutterite brothers. The catalog covers the holdings in Europe; the Hutterite scriptures in North America are not included.

In 1952 the first volume of the sources on the history of the Anabaptists in Switzerland was published . The editors of the volume, which deals with the Zurich Anabaptist documents and whose publication was not insignificantly supported by the Zollikon community , were Leonhard von Muralt and Walter Schmid. The Emden Mennonite pastor and Anabaptist researcher Heinold Fast was responsible for the second volume (1972) with sources on the history of the Anabaptists in Eastern Switzerland . Volumes III ( Aargau - Bern - Solothurn , 2008) and IV ( Three Anabaptist Talks , 1974) were obtained from Martin Haas .

Volumes published so far

Title page of the Worms prophets - You can find them in Volume VI.3 of the QGT
Balthasar Hubmaier - Volume IX is dedicated to his writings
Title page of the art book (see Volume XVII of the QGT)

Sources on the history of the Anabaptists (QGWT)

  • Vol. I (ed. Gustav Bossert): Duchy of Württemberg , Leipzig 1930.
  • Vol. II (edited by Karl Schornbaum): Markgraftum Brandenburg (Bavaria Section I) , Leipzig 1934.

Anabaptist History Sources (QGT)

  • Vol. III (ed. Lydia Müller): Testimonies of Faith of Upper German Baptists I , Leipzig 1938.
  • Vol. IV (ed. Manfred Krebs): Baden and Pfalz , Gütersloh 1951, Reprint New York, London 1971.
  • Vol. V (ed. Karl Schornbaum): Imperial cities: Regensburg, Kaufbeuren, Rothenburg, Nördlingen, Schweinfurt, Weissenburg (Bavaria Section II) , Gütersloh 1951, reprint New York, London 1971.
  • Vol. VI: Hans Denck, writings
    • Part 1 (ed. Georg Baring): Bibliography , Gütersloh 1955.
    • Part 2 (ed. Walter Fellmann): Religious Writings , Gütersloh 1956.
    • Part 3 (ed. Walter Fellmann): Exegetical writings , Gütersloh 1960.
  • Vol. VII (edited by Manfred Krebs, Hans-Georg Rott): Alsace I, Strasbourg 1522-1532 , Gütersloh 1959.
  • Vol. VIII (edited by Manfred Krebs, Hans-Georg Rott): Alsace II, Strasbourg 1533-1535 , Gütersloh 1960.
  • Vol. IX (ed. Gunnar Westin, Torsten Bergsten): Balthasar Hubmaier. Writings , Gütersloh 1962.
  • Vol. X (ed. Hans-Joachim Hillerbrand): Bibliography on the history of Anabaptism 1520-1630 , Gütersloh 1962.
  • Vol. XI (edited by Grete Mecenseffy): Austria I , (Gütersloh: Gerd Mohn, 1964).
  • Vol. XII (ed. Robert Friedmann): Testimonies of Faith of Upper German Baptists II , Gütersloh 1967.
  • Vol. XIII (edited by Grete Mecenseffy): Austria II , (Gütersloh: Gerd Mohn, 1972).
  • Vol. XIV (edited by Grete Mecenseffy and Matthias Schmelzer): Austria III , (Gütersloh: Gerd Mohn, 1983), ISBN 3-579-01676-8
  • Vol. XV (edited by Marc Lienhard , Stephen F. Nelson, Hans Georg Rott): Elsass III, City of Strasbourg 1536 - 1542 , Gütersloh 1986, ISBN 3-579-01678-4
  • Vol. XVI (edited by Marc Lienhard, Stephen F. Nelson, Hans Georg Rott): Alsace IV, City of Strasbourg 1543 - 1552, including addenda and improvements to parts 1, 2 and 3 , Gütersloh 1988, ISBN 3-579-01679 -2
  • Vol. XVII (ed. Heinold Fast , Gottfried Seebaß , Martin Rothkegel ): Letters and writings of Upper German Anabaptists 1527 - 1555. The “art book” by Jörg Probst Rotenfelder, called painter (Burgerbibliothek Bern, Cod. 464) , Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 3-579-01646-6 / ISBN 978-3-579-01646-7
  • Vol. XVIII (edited by Matthias H. Rauert and Martin Rothkegel, ed. Gottfried Seebaß): Catalog of Hutterite manuscripts and prints from Hutterite possession in Europe , two volumes, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-579-05376-9

Sources on the history of the Anabaptists in Switzerland (QGTS)

literature

  • Harold S. Bender: The Täufer-Akten Publication Series of the Society for Reformation History , in: Mennonite Quarterly Review , XXIII (1949), pp. 48-52.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for the History of the Reformation: Anabaptist Files Commission ( Memento from January 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); Accessed May 17, 2013.
  2. ↑ Compare for example Paul Wappler: Sources for the Anabaptist Movement in Thuringia from 1526 to 1584 , in: Contributions to the recent history of Thuringia , Volume II, Jena 1913.
  3. ↑ Johann Loserth: Sources and research on the history of the Upper German baptismal , 1929.
  4. ↑ Harold S. Bender: Sources for the history of the Anabaptists . In: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ; accessed on April 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ Harold S. Bender: Bossert, Gustav . In: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ; accessed on April 29, 2011.
  6. ↑ Gottfried Seebaß: Editor's foreword to letters and writings of Upper German Anabaptists 1527–1555. The "art book" of Jörg Probst Rotenfelder called painter (Burgerbibliothek Bern, Cod. 464) (edited by Heinold Fast and Martin Rothkegel ; edited by Heinold Fast and Gottfried Seebaß), in: Sources for the history of the Anabaptists XVII. Volume, p. 5.
  7. ↑ Cf. Diether Götz Lichdi, review of that ., In: Free Church Research No. 18, 2009 ( ISBN 3-934109-10-1 ), pp. 299-302.