| 5. The Zwingli Literature. | ||||
I. Sources: | ||||
Huldreich Zwingli: Opera omnia, ed. Melchior Schuler (d. 1859) and Joh. Schulthess (d. 1836). Tiguri, 1828-'42. 8 vols. Vols. I. and II., the German writings; III.-VI., Scripta Latina; VII. and VIII., Epistolae. A supplement of 75 pages was ed. by G. Schulthess (d. 1866) and Marthaler in 1861, and contains letters of Zwingli to Rhenanus and others. A new critical edition is much needed and contemplated for the Corpus Reformatorum by a commission of Swiss scholars. Zwingli's Correspond. in Herminjard, Vols. I. and II. | ||||
The first edition of Zwingli's Works appeared at Z rich, 1545, in 4 vols. Usteri and Voegelin: M. H. Zwingli's Schriften im Auszuge, Z rich, 1819 and '20, 2 vols. (A systematic exhibition of Zwingli's teaching in modern German.) Another translation of select works into modern German by R. Christoffel, Zuer., 1843, 9 small vols. | ||||
Comp. also Paul Schweizer (Staatsarchivar in Z rich, son of Dr. Alexander Schweizer): Zwingli-Autographen im Staats-Archiv zu Z rich. 1885. (23 pages; separately publ. from the Theol. Zeitschrift aus der Schweiz. ) | ||||
Joannis Oecolampadii et Huldrichi Zwinglii Epistolarum libri IV. Basil. 1536. | ||||
Herminjard (A. L.): Correspondance des Reformateurs. Geneve, 1866 sqq. Letters of Zwingli in vol. I. Nos. 82 and 146 (and eight letters to him, Nos. 17, 19, 32, etc.), and in vol. II. No. 191 (and nine letters to him). | ||||
Briefwechsel des Beatus Rhenanus. Gesammelt u. herausgeg. von Dr. Adelbert Horawitz und Dr. Karl Hartfelder. Leipzig, 1886. Contains also the correspondence between Rhenanus and Zwingli. See Index, p. 700. | ||||
II. Biographies of Zwingli, including Short Sketches: | ||||
Oswald Myconius: De Vita et Obitu Zw., 1536. Republ. in Vitae quatuor Reformatortum, with Preface by Neander, 1840. Nuescheler, Z rich, 1776. J. Caspar Hess: Vie d'Ulrich Zwingle, Geneva, 1810; German ed. more than doubled by a literary appendix of 372 pages, by Leonh. Usteri, Z rich, 1811, 2 vols. (Engl. transl. from the French by Aiken, Lond., 1812). Rotermund, Bremen, 1818. J. M. Schuler: H. Zw. Gesch. seiner Bildung zum Reformator seines Vaterlandes. Zuer., 1818, 2d ed. 1819. Horner, Zuer., 1818. L. Usteri, in the Appendix to his ed. of Zwingli's German works, Zuer., 1819. Several sketches of Zwingli appeared in connection with the celebration of the Z rich Reformation in 1819, especially in the festal oration of J. J. Hess: Emendationis sacrorum beneficium, Turici, 1819. J. J. Hottinger, Zuer., 1842 (translation by Th. C. Porter: Life and Times of U. Z., Harrisburg, Penn., 1857, 421 pages). Robbins, in Bibliotheca Sacra, Andover, Mass., 1851. L. Mayer, in his History of the German Ref. Church, vol. I., Philadelphia, 1851. Dan. Wise, Boston, 1850 and 1882. Roeder, St. Gallen and Bern, 1855. R. Christoffel, Elberfeld, 1857 (Engl. transl. by John Cochran, Edinb., 1858)., Salomon Voegelin: Erinnerungen an Zw. Zuer., 1865. W. M. Blackburn, Philad., 1868. *J. C. Moerikofer, Leipzig, 1867 and '69, 2 vols. The best biography from the sources. Dr. Volkmar: Vortrag, Zuer., 1870 (30 pages). G. Finsler: U. Zw., 3 Vortraege, Zuer., 1873. G. A. Hoff: Vie d'Ulr. Zw., Paris, 1882 (pp. 305). Jean Grob, Milwaukee, Wis., 1883, 190 pages (Engl. transl., N. York, 1884). Ch. Alphonse Witz: Ulrich Zwingli, Vortraege, Gotha, 1884 (pp. 144). Gueder, in Herzog's Encycl., XVIII. 701-706; revised by R. Staehelin in second ed., XVII., 584-635. E. Combe: U. Z.; le reformateur suisse. Lausanne, 1884 (pp. 40). H. Roerich: U. Z. Notice biographique, Geneve, 1884 (pp. 40). J. G. Hardy: U. Zwingli, or Z rich and its Reformer. Edinb., 1888. | ||||
III. On Zwingli's Wife: | ||||
Salomon Hess: Anna Reinhard, Gattin und Wittwe von U. Zwingli. Z rich, 2d ed. 1820. (Some truth and much fiction.) Gerold Meyer von Knonau: Zuege aus dem Leben der Anna Reinhard. Erlangen, 1835. (Reliable.) | ||||
IV. Commemorative Addresses of 1884 at the Fourth Centennial of Zwingli's Birth: | ||||
Comp. the list in the Z richer Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1885, pp. 265-268; and Flaigg, in Theol. Zeitschrift aus der Schweiz, 1885, pp. 219 sqq. Some of the biographies mentioned sub II. are commemorative addresses. | ||||
*Alex. Schweizer (d. 1888): Zwingli's Bedeutung neben Luther. Festrede in der Universitaetsaula, Jan. 6, 1884, weiter ausgefuehrt. Zur., 1884 (pp. 89). Also a series of articles of Schweizer in the Protestant. Kirchenzeitung, Berlin, 1883, Nos. 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 26, 27, in defence of Zwingli against the charges of Janssen. Joh. Martin Usteri (pastor at Affoltern, then Prof. at Erlangen, d. 1889 Ulrich Zwingli, ein Martin Luther ebenbuertiger [?] Zeuge des evang. Glaubens. Festschrift mit Vorrede von H. v. der Goltz. Z rich, 1883 (144 pp.); Zwingli und Erasmus, Z rich, 1885 (39 pp.); Initia Zwinglii, in the Studien und Kritiken for 1885 (pp. 607-672), 1886 (pp. 673-737), and 1889 (pp. 140 and 141). Rud. Staehelin: Huldreich Zwingli und sein Reformations-werk. Zum vierhundertjahrigen Geburtstag Z.'s dargestellt. Halle, 1883 (pages 81). Ernst Staehelin: H. Z.'s Predigt an unser Schweizervolk und unsere Zeit. Basel, 1884. Ernst Mueller: Ulrich Zw. Ein Bernischer Beitrag zur Zwinglifeier. Bern, 1884. E. Dietz: Vie d'U. Z. l'occasion du 400 anniversaire de sa naissance. Paris and Strasbourg, 1884 (pp. 48). Herm. Spoerri: Durch Gottes Gnade allein. Zur Feier des 400 jaehr. Geb. tages Zw.'s. Hamburg, 1884. Joh. (T. Dreydorff: U. Zw. Festpredigt. Leipzig, 1884. Sal. Voegelin: U. Z. Zuer., 1884. G. Finsler (Zwingli's twenty-second successor as Antistes in Z rich): Ulrich Zw. Festschrift zur Feier seines 400 jaehr. Geburtstags. Zuer., 3d ed. 1884 (transl. into Romansch by Darms, Coire, 1884). Finsler and Meyer von Knonau: Festvortraege bei der Feier des 400 jaehr. Geburtstags U. Z. Zuer., 1884 (pp. 24). Finsler delivered also the chief address at the unveiling of Zwingli's monument, Aug. 25, 1885. Oechsli: Zur Zwingli-Feier. Zuer., 1884. Die Zwinglifeier in Bern, Jan. 6, 1884. Several addresses, 80 pages. Alfred Krauss (professor in Strassburg): Zwingli. Strassb., 1884 (pp. 19). Aug. Bouvier: Foi, Culture et Patriotisme. Deux discours l'occasion Du quatriEme centenaire de Ulrich Zwingli. Geneve and Paris, 1884. (In Nouvelles Paroles de Fol et de Liberte, and separately.) W. Gamper (Reform. minister at Dresden): U. Z. Festpredigt zur 400 jaehr. Gedenkfeier seines Geburtstages. Dresden, 1884. G. K. von Toggenburg (pseudonymous R. Cath.): Die wahre Union und die Zwinglifeier. St. Gallen and Leipzig, 1884 (pp. 190). Zwingliana, in the Theol. Zeitschrift aus der Schweiz. Zuer., 1884, No. II. Kappeler, Grob und Egg: Zur Erinnerung. Drei Reden gehalten in Kappel, Jan. 6, 1884. Affoltern a. A. 1884 (pp. 27). In America also several addresses were delivered and published in connection with the Zwingli commemoration in 1883 and '84. Besides, some books of Zwingli's were republished; e.g. the Hirt (Shepherd) by Riggenbach (Basel, 1884); the Lehrbuechlein, Latin and German, by E. Egli (Zuer., 1884). | ||||
V. On the Theology of Zwingli: | ||||
Edw. Zeller (professor of philosophy in Berlin): Das theologische System Zwingli's. Tuebingen, 1853. | ||||
Ch. Sigwart: Ulrich Zwingli. Der Charakter seiner Theologie mit besonderer Ruecksicht auf Picus von Mirandola dargestellt. Stuttg. und Hamb., 1855. | ||||
Herm. Spoerri (Ref. pastor in Hamburg): Zwingli-Studien. Leipzig, 1886 (pp. 131). Discussions on Zwingli's doctrine of the Church, the Bible, his relation to humanism and Christian art. | ||||
August Baur (D. D., a Wuertemberg pastor in Weilimdorf near Stuttgart): Zwingli's Theologie, ihr Werden und ihr System. Halle, vol. I. 1885 (pp. 543); Vol. II. P. I., 1888 (pp. 400), P. II., 1889. This work does for Zwingli what Jul. Koestlin did for Luther and A. Herrlinger for Melanchthon. | ||||
Alex. Schweizer, in his Festrede, treats more briefly, but very ably, of Zwingli's theological opinions (pp. 60-88). | ||||
VI. Relation of Zwingli to Luther and Calvin: | ||||
Merle D'Aubigne: Le Lutheranisme et la Reforme. Paris, 1844. Engl. translation: Luther and Calvin. N. York, 1845. | ||||
Hundeshagen: Charakteristik U. Zwingli's und seines Reformationswerks unter Vergleichung mit Luther und Calvin, in the Studien und Kritiken, 1862. Compare also his Beitraege zur Kirchenverfassungsgeschichte und Kirchenpolitik, Bd. I. Wiesbaden, 1864, pp. 136-297. (Important for Zwingli's church polity.) | ||||
G. Plitt (Lutheran): Gesch. der ev. Kirche bis zum Augsburger Reichstage. Erlangen, 1867, pp. 417-488. | ||||
A. F. C. Vilmar (Luth.): Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli. Frankf. -a. -M., 1869. | ||||
G. Uhlhorn (Luth.): Luther and the Swiss, translated by G. F. Krotel, Philadelphia, 1876. | ||||
Zwingli Wirth (Reformed): Luther und Zwingli. St. Gallen, 1884 (pp. 37). | ||||
VII. Special Points in Zwingli's History and Theology: | ||||
Kradolfer: Zwingli in Marburg. Berlin, 1870. | ||||
Emil Egli: Die Schlacht von Cappel 1531. Mit 2 Plaenen und einem Anhang ungedruckter Quellen. Zuer., 1873 (pp. 88). By the same: Das Religionsgespraech zu Marburg. Zuer., 1884. In the Theol. Zeitschrift aus der Schweiz. | ||||
Martin Lenz: Zwingli und Landgraf Philipp, in Brieger's Zeitschrift fuer Kirchengeschichte for 1879 (Bd. III.). | ||||
H. Bavinck: De ethick van U. Zwingli. Kampen, 1880. | ||||
Jul. Werder: Zwingli als politischer Reformator, in the Basler Beitraege zur vaterlaend. Geschichte, Basel, 1882, pp. 263-290. | ||||
Herm. Escher: Die Glaubensparteien in der Schweiz. Eidgenossenschaft und ihre Beziehungen zum Auslande von 1527-'31. Frauenfeld, 1882. (pp. 326.) Important for Zwingli's Swiss and foreign policy, and his views on the relation of Church and State. | ||||
W. Oechsli: Die Anfaenge des Glaubenskonfliktes zwischen Z rich und den Eidgenossen. Winterthur, 1883 (pp. 42). | ||||
Marthaler: Zw.'s Lehre vom Glauben. Zuer., 1884. | ||||
Aug. Baur: Die erste Z richer Disputation. Halle, 1883 (pp. 32). | ||||
A. Erichson: Zwingli's Tod und dessen Beurtheilung durch Zeitgenossen, Strassb., 1883 (pp. 43); U. Zw. und die elsaessischen Reformatoren, Strassb., 1884 (pp. 40). | ||||
Flueckiger: Zwingli's Beziehungen zu Bern, in the Berner Beitraege. Bern, 1884. | ||||
J. Mart. Usteri: Initia Zwinglii, and Zw. and Erasmus. See above, p. 18. | ||||
H. Fenner: Zw. als Patriot und Politiker. Frauenfeld, 1884 (pp. 38). | ||||
G. Heer: U. Zw. als Pfarrer von Glarus. Z rich, 1884 (pp. 42). | ||||
Gust. Weber (musical director and organist of the Grossmuenster in Z rich): H. Zwingli. Seine Stellung zur Musik und seine Lieder. Z rich and Leipzig, 1884 (pp. 68). | ||||
A. Zahn: Zwingli's Verdienste um die biblische Abendmahlslehre. Stuttgart, 1884. | ||||
G. Wunderli; Z rich in der Periode 1519-'31. Z rich, 1888. | ||||
On Zwingli and the Anabaptists, see the literature in 24. | ||||
VIII. In part also the biographies of Oecolampadius, Bullinger, Leo Judae, Haller, etc. | ||||
The best books on Zwingli are Moerikofer's biography, Usteri on the education of Zwingli, Baur on his theology, Escher and Oechsli on his state and church polity, and Schweizer and R. Staehelin on his general character and position in history. | ||||