Worms prophet

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Title page of the Worms translation of the prophets

Worms Propheten refers to the German translation of the Old Testament books of prophets made by the Anabaptist reformers Ludwig Hätzer and Hans Denck and published in Worms in the spring of 1527 . The translation published under the title "All Prophets according to Hebrew language translated" was the first Protestant translation of the prophets and appeared before Zwingli and Luther's translations of the prophets . Both seem to have based their later work on the books of the prophets on the Worms translation. Ludwig Hätzer and Hans Denck themselves were probably supported by Jewish theologians in their work on the original Hebrew text.

The Worms prophets quickly spread. Eleven more editions of the Worms Prophets were printed within five years. In addition to Worms, the printing locations were Augsburg and Hagenau in Alsace. Nevertheless, the work was rejected on many sides with reference to the Anabaptist origin of its authors. As early as May 1527, the city council in Nuremberg banned the further sale of the Worms prophets. Among other things, the reformer Luther disliked the collaboration of Jews . The Protestant theologian Gustav Georg Zeltner published a first comment on the Worms prophets in 1734 .

In 1529, two years after the Worms translation of the prophets appeared, the Worms Bible , published by the printer Peter Schöffer the Younger , was the first full Protestant Bible in German. Peter Schöffer probably also initiated the translation of the Worms prophets.

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  1. ↑ Thomas Kaufmann : Martin Luther . Munich 2006, p. 71 .