The Gruber Rare Books Collection and Other Rare Books
Luther's Works
Publications by Luther 1546
1546
Warning to his Dear Germans
Gruber 148a Warnunge D. Martini Luther an seine lieben Deudschen...Mit einer Vorrede Philippi Melanchthon. Tübingen: Ulrich Morhart MDXLVI. Benzing 2921; WA 30, 3.264ff.or 276-320. Warnung an seine lieben Deutschen.Click to enlarge thumbnail. A translation of the 1531 edition is in Luther's Works 47:11-55. See also the introduction by the translator, Martin H. Bertram, on pp. 5-10. The outbreak of the Smalcald War in 1546 occasioned numerous reprintings of his treatise. The same occurred in 1620-1636, during the Thirty Years' War.
Bugenhagen's Sermon at Luther's Funeral
Gruber 73 Johann Bugenhagen. Eine Christliche Predigt uber der Leich und begrebnis des Ehrwirdigen D. Martini Luthers. Wittemberg: Georgen Rhaw, Anno MDXLVI. Click to enlarge thumbnail.
A Christian Sermon over the Body and at the Funeral of the Venerable Dr. Martin Luther, preached by Mr. Johann Bugenhagen Pomeranus, doctor and pastor of the churches in Wittenberg.
A translation of this sermon by Professor Kurt Hendel is on the Emory University Library website.
Justus Jonas: On Luther's Death
Gruber 22 Justus Jonas. Vom Christlichen Abschied aus diesem tödlichen leben... Wittemberg: Georgen Rhaw. Anno MDLVI. Title page missing.
Gruber 35 Justus Jonas, et al. Vom Christlichen Abschied aus diesem tödlichen leben des Ehrwirdigen Herrn D. Martini Lutheri... Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1546.
Melanchthon's Sermon at Luther's Funeral
Gruber 71 Oratio in Funere Reverendi viri D. Martini Lutheri, recitata a Phlippo Melanthone. Vitebergae Anno MDXLVI. (1546)
Gruber 72 Oratio Uber der Leich des ehrwirdigen herrn D. Martini Luthers, gethan durch Philippum Melanthon, Am XXII tag Februarii...Wittemberg: Georgen Rahw. Anno XLVI.
Johann Stigel: On Luther's Death
Gruber 78 Johann Stigel. De Viro Sancto Martino Luthero Purae Doctrinae Evangelii instauratore...Auff das Christliche absterben des heiligen Theololgen Doctoris Martini Lutheri. Durch M. Johannem Stigelium. Vitebergae, MDXLVI.
The Gruber Collection was assembled by L. Franklin Gruber, President of Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, Maywood, Illinois.
Annotation prepared by Ralph W Klein