| 38. Philip Melanchthon. Literature | ||||
The best Melanchthon collection is in the Royal Library of Berlin, which I have consulted for this list (July, 1886). The third centenary of Mel.'s death in 1860, and the erection of his monument in Wittenberg, called forth a large number of pamphlets and articles in periodicals. | ||||
I. Works of Melanchthon. The first ed. appeared at Basel, 1541, 5 vols. fol.; another by Peucer (his son-in-law), Wittenberg, 1562-64, 4 vols. fol.; again 1601. Selection of his German works by Koethe. Leipzig, 1829-30, 6 vols. *Best ed. of Opera omnia (in the Corpus Reformatorum ) by Bretschneider and Bindseil. Halle, 1834-60, 28 vols. 4 . The most important vols. for church history are vols. i.-xi. and xxi.-xxviii. The last vol. (second part) contains Annates Vitae (pp. 1-143), and very ample Indices (145-378). | ||||
Add to these: Epistolae, Judicia, Consilia, Testimonia, etc., ed. H. E. Bindseil. Halle, 1874. 8 . A supplement to the Corpus Reform. Compare also Bindseil's Bibliotheca Melanthoniana. Halis 1868 pp. 28). Carl Krause: Melanthoniana, Regesten und Briefe ueber die Beziehungen Philipp Mel. zu Anhalt und dessen Fuersten. Zerbst, 1885. pp. 185. | ||||
II. Biographies of Melanchton. An account of his last days by the Wittenberg professors: Brevis narratio exponens quo fine vitam in terris suam clauserit D. Phil. Mel. conscripta a professoribus academiae Vitebergensis, qui omnibus quae exponuntur interfuerunt. Viteb. 1560. 4 . The same in German. A funeral oration by Heerbrand: Oratio in obitum Mel. habita in Academia Tubingensi die decima quinta Maji. Vitebergae, 1560. *Joachim Camerarius: Vita Mel. Lips. 1566; and other edd., one with notes by Strobel. Halle, 1777; one with preface by Neander in the Vitae quatuor Reformatorum. Berlin, 1841. | ||||
Strobel: Melanchthoniana. Altdorf, 1771: Die Ehre Mel. gerettet, 1773; and other works. A. H. Niemeyer: Phil. Mel. als Praeceptor Germaniae. Halle, 1817. Fr. Aug. Cox: Life of Mel., comprising an account of the Reform. Lond. 1815, 2d ed. 1817. G. L. Fr. Delbrueck: Ph. Mel. der Glaubenslehrer. Bonn, 1826. Heyd: Mel. und Tuebingen, 1512-18. Tueb. 1839. *Fr. Galle: Characteristik Melanchth. als Theol. und Entw. seines Lehrbegr. Halle, 1840. *Fr. Matthes: Ph. Mel. Sein Leben u. Wirken aus den Quellen. Altenb. 1841. 2d ed. 1846. Ledderhose: Phil. Mel. nach seinem auesseren u. inneren Leben dargestellt. Heidelberg, 1847 (English translation by Dr. Krotel. Phila. 1855). By the same: Das Leben des Phil. Mel. fuer das Volk. Barmen, 1858. *Mor. Meurer: Phil. Mel.'s Leben. Leipzig u. Dresden, 1860. 2d ed. 1869. Heppe: Phil. Mel. der Lehrer Deutschlands. Marburg, 1860. *Carl Schmidt: Philipp Melanchthons Leben und ausgewaehlte Schriften. Elberfeld, 1861 (in the Reformatoren der Luth. Kirche ). * Herrlinger: Die Theologie Mel.'s in ihrer geschichtl. Entwicklung. Gotha, 1879. | ||||
III. Brief sketches, by Neander, in Piper's Evang.-Kalender for 1851. By Nitzsch, in the Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer christl. Wissenschaft, 1855. Is. Aug. Dorner: Zum dreihundertjaehrigen Gedaechtniss des Todes Melanchthons, 1860. Volbeding: Mel. wie er liebte und lebte (Leipz. 1860.). Kahnis: Rede zum Gedaechtniss Mel.'s (Leipz. 1860). Wohlfahrt: Phil. Mel. (Leipzig, 1860). W. Thilo: Mel. im Dienste der heil. Schrift (Berlin, 1860). Paul Pressel: Phil. Mel. Ein evang. Lebensbild (Stuttg. 1860). Festreden zur Erinnerung an den 300 jaehrigen Todestag Phil. Mel.'s und bei der Grundsteinlegung zu dessen Denkmal zu Wittenberg, herausgeg. von Lommatzch (Wittenb. 1860). Henke: Das Verhaetniss Luthers und Mel. zu einander (Marburg, 1860), and Memoria B. Phil. Mel. (Marburg, 1860). Ad. Planck: Mel. Praeceptor Germ. (Noerdlingen, 1860). Tollin: Ph. Mel. und Mich. Servet. Eine Quellenstudie (Berlin, 1876). Landerer: Mel., in Herzog1 and Herzog2 ix. 471-525, revised by Herrlinger. Thiersch: Mel. (Augsburg, 1877, and New York, Am. Tract Soc. 1880). Luthardt: Melanchthon's Arbeiten im Gebiete der Moral (Leipz. 1884). Wagenmann: Ph. Mel. (in the Allgem. Deutsche Biographie ). Paulsen in Gesch. des gelehrten Unterrichts (Leipz. 1885. pp. 34 sqq.). Schaff in St. Augustine, Melanchthon, Neander (New York and London, 1886. pp. 107-127). | ||||
IV. On Mel.'s Loci, see Strobel: Literaergesch. von Ph. Mel.'s locis theologicis. Altdorf and Nuernberg, 1776. Plitt: Melanchthons Loci in ihrer Urgestalt. Erlangen, 1864. | ||||