Worms Bible
The Worms Bible is the first full Protestant Bible in German . It was published in 1529 under the title Biblia beyder Allt and Newen Testaments Teutsch by the printer Peter Schöffer den Jüngeren in Worms .
For the most part, it combined parts of the Zurich Bible and the Luther Bible that had already been published . The prophetic texts of the Old Testament were based on the Worms prophets by Ludwig Hätzer and Hans Denck, which had been printed two years earlier . The Anabaptist preacher Jakob Kautz was probably the translator and compiler of the Worms Bible . 45 woodcuts by the painter and graphic artist Anton Woensam were used as illustrationsused. With the combined Worms Bible, the wish of large parts of the people for a complete Reformation Bible in German could be met even before Zwingli and Luther . Two years after the Worms Bible was printed, the first complete Zurich Bible was published. The Luther Bible followed in 1534.
A copy of the Worms Bible that was restored in 2008 is now in the Worms City Library . Another copy is in the possession of the Schwenkfelder Library in North America. The latter was probably acquired by Kaspar Schwenckfeld in Strasbourg as early as 1530 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Illustrated old books from the old stock of the Worms City Library. City of Worms, accessed on October 31, 2014 .
- ^ Christian Hege : Jakob Kautz . In: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
- ↑ Irmgard Wilhelm-Schaffer: Kautz, Jakob. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 1264-1265.
- ↑ Worms City Library: Restoration of nine works from the old stock ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Heinz Schmitt: Three forgotten scholars from the Eifel. (No longer available online.) In: Heimatjahrbuch 2005. Heimatjahrbucharchiv Landkreis Vulkaneifel, archived from the original on January 12, 2006 ; Retrieved December 13, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
