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Subsections
Luther’s Works
Lutheranism
Lutheran Historical Theology
Lutheran Systematic Theologies
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Order of Contents
Early & Medieval
Reformation
. Shorter Histories 18+
. Large Histories 8
Reformed Church
Special Studies
Primary Sources 2
Luther 20
Luther’s Thought 4
Melanchthon 1
Worship 3
Latin 2
Biblios 4
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Early & Medieval Church History
Articles
Kruger, Gustav – Harvard Theological Review, vol. 14, no. 4 (Oct. 1921), pp. 283-374 & vol. 15 (Oct. 1922), pp. 323-405
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Short & Medium Length Histories
1800’s
Shober, G. – A Comprehensive Account of the Rise and Progress of the Blessed Reformation of the Christian Church by Dr. Martin Luther (1818) 235 pp.
Montgomery, Robert – Luther: the Spirit of the Reformation (1843) 385 pp.
Spalding, M.J. – D’Aubigné’s “History of the great Reformation in Germany & Swtizerland Reviewed, or the Reformation in Germany Examined in its Instruments, Causes & Manner… (1844) 400 pp.
Spalding, a Roman Catholic, attempts to set forth ‘the other side of the story’ and not only review D’Aubigne’s work, but to provide a general history of the Reformation.
Heppe, Heinrich – The Reformers of England & Germany in the Sixteenth Century: Their Intercourse & Correspondence. A Historical Sketch & Original Documents Buy (1859) 225 pp. with an Appendix containing twelve primary source letters in Latin
Dalton, Hermannn – John A Lasco: his Earlier Life and Labors: a Contribution to the History of the Reformation in Poland, Germany & England (1886) 390 pp.
Morris, John G. – The Blind Girl of Wittenberg: A Life Picture of the Times of Luther & the Reformation (1856) 310 pp.
ed. Saint-Hilaire – Tales from Alsace, or Scenes & Portraits from Life in the Days of the Reformation, as Drawn from Old Chronicles (1868) 424 pp.
Anon. – Anecdotes of Luther and the Reformation (1883) 265 pp.
Seiss, Joseph – Luther & the Reformation: the Life Springs of our Liberties (1888) 210 pp.
Anon. – Characters, Scenes and Incidents of the Reformation: from the Times of Luther to the Close of the Sixteenth Century (n.d.) 200 pp.
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1900’s
Plummer, Alfred – The Continental Reformation in Germany, France & Switzerland, from the Birth of Luther to the Death of Calvin (1912) 230 pp.
Lindsay, Thomas – Luther & the German Reformation (1913) 320 pp. in The World’s Epoch-Makers Here is a one page review by Henry M. Baird.
Lindsay was a professor in the Free Church of Scotland.
ed. Dau, W.H.T. – 400 Years, Commemorative Essays on the Reformation of Dr. Martin Luther and its Blessed Results (1916) 330 pp.
Fischer-Galati, Stephen – Ottoman Imperialism & German Protestantism Buy (1959) 156 pp.
Fischer-Galati was an American historian from Romania.
Holborn, Hajo – A History of Modern Germany: The Reformation (1959) 420 pp.
Dickens, A.G. – Martin Luther & the Reformation (1967) 195 pp.
Forte, Dieter – Luther, Munzer & the Bookkeepers of the Reformation (1973) 215 pp.
Center for Reformation Research – Early Sixteenth Century Roman Catholic Theologians & the German Reformation: a Finding List of CRR holdings (1975) 62 pp.
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2000’s
Booth, Edwin Prince – Martin Luther: Heart of the Reformation (2003) 205 pp.
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Large Histories
1800’s
Scott, John – Luther & the Lutheran Reformation, vol. 1, 2 (1832)
Hagenback, K.R. – History of the Reformation in Germany & Switzerland Chiefly, vol. 1, 2 (1878)
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1900’s
von Ranke, Leopold – History of the Reformation in Germany (1905) 815 pp.
Vedder, Henry C. – The Reformation in Germany (1914) 525 pp.
Vedder was a professor of Church history at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, a multi-denominational school, though it served mainly the American Baptist Church.
Lortz, Joseph – The Reformation in Germany, vol. 1, 2 (1968) 500 pp.
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History of the Reformed Church in Germany
See also “The History of Relations between the Lutherans & the Reformed”.
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Articles
Richards, George W. – “Calvinism in the Reformed Churches of Germany” in Reformed Church Review, 4th Series, XIII, no. 2 (1909), pp. 316-45
Baxter, J.H. – “Alesius & Other Reformed Refugees in Germany” in SCHS (1935), pp. 93-102
Thompson, Bard – ch. 2, “The Reformed Church in the Palatinate” in eds. Thompson, Berkhof, Schweizer, Hageman, Essays on the Heidelberg Catechism (United Church Press, 1963), pp. 31-53
Chadwick, Owen – “The Making of a Reforming Prince: Frederick III, Elector Palatine” in Reformation, Conformity & Dissent, ed. R. Buick Knox (London: Epworth, 1977), pp. 44-69
Cohn, Henry J. – “Territorial Princes in Germany’s Second Reformation, 1559–1622” in International Calvinism 1541-1715, ed. Menna Preswich (Oxford Univ. Press, 1985), pp. 135–66
Janse, Wim – “Wittenberg Calvinizans: The Involvement of Melanchthon, Peucer, and Eber in the Bremen Sacramentarian Controversy, 1560” in Ordentlich und Fruchtbar: Festschrift für Willem van’t Spijker, ed. Wilhelm Neuser & Herman Selderhuis (Leiden: J.J. Groen en Zoon, 1997), pp. 53-68
Nischan, Bodo
“Reformed Irenicism & the Leipzig Colloquy of 1631” in Central European History, 9 (1996), pp. 3-26
“John Bergius [d. 1658]: Irenicism and the Beginning of Official Religious Toleration in Brandenburg-Prussia” in Church History, vol. 51, no. 4 (Dec. 1982), pp. 389-404
“The Second Reformation in Brandenburg: Aims & Goals” in The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 14, no. 2 (Summer, 1983), pp. 173-87
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Books
Thompson, Bard – An Historical Reconstruction of Melanchthonianism in the German Reformed Church based on Liturgical Evidence Ph.D. Diss. (Columbia University, 1953)
Christman, Robert J. – The Dynamics of the Early Reformation in their Reformed Augustinian Context Pre (2020; Routledge, 2025) ToC
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Multi-Volume
1800’s
Mayer, Lewis – The History of the German Reformed Church, vol. 1, 2 (1851)
Harbaugh, H. – The Fathers of the German Reformed Church in Europe & America, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (1857)
Good, James I.
Origin of the Reformed Church in Germany (Reading, PA: Miller, 1887) 525 pp. ToC
History of the Reformed Church of Germany, 1620-1890 (Reading, PA: Miller, 1894) 655 pp. ToC
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Special Studies
Miscellaneous
Articles
Pauck, William – “The Historiography of the German Reformation during the Past Twenty Years” in Church History, vol. 9, no. 4 (Dec., 1940), pp. 305-40
Pauk was a professor at Chicago Theological Seminary.
Spitz, Lewis – “The Augsburg Confession: 450 Years of History” in The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, 450th Anniversary Augsburg Confession (Jun. 25, 1980), pp. 3-9
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Books
Gunnoe, Charles – Thomas Erastus & the Palatinate: a Renaissance Physician in the Second Reformation (Brill, 2010) 544 pp. ToC
Christman, Robert J. – The Dynamics of the Early Reformation in their Reformed Augustinian Context Pre (2020; Routledge, 2025) ToC
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Connection to the Scottish Reformation
Articles
Baxter, J.H. – “Alesius & Other Reformed Refugees in Germany” in SCHS (1935), pp. 93-102
Cameron, James
“Catholic Reform in Germany & in the pre-1560 Church in Scotland” in SCHS (1979), pp. 105-17
Aspects of the Lutheran Contribution to the Scottish Reformation, 1528-1552 (1984) 12 pp.
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Books
1800’s
Mitchell, William – The Wedderburns & their Work, or the Sacred Poetry of the Scottish Reformation in its Historical Relation to that of Germany, a Lecture (1867) 95 pp.
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1900’s
McGoldrick, James E. – Luther’s Scottish Connection (Cranbury: Associated Univ. Press, 1989) 141 pp.
See the review by Barry Waugh.
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Politics
1800’s
von Ranke, Leopold – Ferdinand I [d. 1564] & Maximilian II [d. 1576] of Austria: an Essay on the Political & Religious State of Germany immediately after the Reformation (1853) 145 pp.
Hutton, William – The Political Disturbances which Accompanied the Early Period of the Reformation in Germany (1881) 41 pp.
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Localities
Bernheim, G.D. – Localities of the Reformation which were Visited Recently in a European Tour, and Described in a Lecture (1877) 25 pp.
Stoughton, John – Homes & Haunts of Luther (n.d.) 285 pp. Religious Tract Society
Sehlbrede, G.E. – Wittenberg & its Association with the Reformation of Germany (1906) 155 pp.
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Educational
1900’s
Woody, Thomas – Furstenschulen in Germany after the Reformation (1920) 60 pp.
Furstenschulen was the protestant school system in Germany.
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Women
Article
Gillet, Myrtle Mann – ‘Woman in German Literature Before & After the Reformation’ Journal of English & Germanic Philology, vol. 17 (1918), pp. 346-75
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Primary Sources
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ed. Robinson & Whitcomb – Translations & Reprints from the Original Sources of European History – Period of the Early Reformation in Germany (1895) 45 pp.
Collitz, Klara – Selections from Classical German Literature from the Reformation to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century (1914) 750 pp. In German with English annotations
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Book
Old German Theology a Hundred Years before the Reformation trans. Malcom (1854) 185 pp. Preface by Martin Luther
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On Martin Luther
Article
Cartwright, T.S. – Luther; the Reformation, Two Lectures (1878) 33 pp.
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Shorter Bios
1800’s
Mead, Edwin – Martin Luther: a Study of the Reformation (1884) 195 pp.
Cubitt, George – The Life of Martin Luther, to which is prefixed an Expository Essay on the Lutheran Reformation (1853) 350 pp.
Lutheran Publication Society – Luther at Wartburg Castle: a Reformation Story of 1521 (1882) 245 pp.
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1900’s
Green, Vivian – Luther & the Reformation (1964) 185 pp.
Simon, Edith – Luther Alive; Martin Luther & the Making of the Reformation (1968) 385 pp.
Hendrix, Scott – Luther & the Papacy: Stages in a Reformation Conflict (1981) 230 pp.
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Larger Bios
1800’s
Bower, Alexander – The Life of Luther, being an Account of the Early Progress of the Reformation (1824) 415 pp.
Sears, Barnas – The Life of Luther with Special Reference to its Earlier Periods & the Opening Scenes of the Reformation (1849) 505 pp.
Stork, Theophilus – The Life of Martin Luther & the Reformation in Germany, with an Introduction (1858) 405 pp.
Jacobs, Henry Eyster – Martin Luther: the Hero of the Reformation, 1483-1546 (1898) 545 pp.
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1900’s
Smith, Preserved – Life & Letters of Martin Luther (1911) 540 pp.
Bainton, Roland H. – Here I Stand: a Life of Martin Luther (1951) 420 pp.
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Luther to 1521
1800’s
Smith, J. Frederick – Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany until the Close of the Diet of Worms (1896) 470 pp.
Beard, Charles – Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany until the Close of the Diet of Worms (1889) 485 pp.
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1900’s
Boehmer, Heinrich – Road to Reformation: Martin Luther to the Year 1521 Buy (1946) 449 pp.
Rupp, E.G. – Luther’s Progress to the Diet of Worms Buy (1951) 109 pp.
Fife, Robert – The Revolt of Martin Luther Buy (1957) 726 pp.
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The Thought of Luther
1900’s
Murray, Robert – Erasmus & Luther: their Attitude to Toleration (1920) 530 pp.
Watson, Philip – Let God be God! An Interpretation of the Theology of Martin Luther Buy (1947) 214 pp.
Rupp, E.G. – The Righteousness of God: Luther Studies Buy (1953) 365 pp. The Birkbeck lectures in ecclesiastical history
Bornkamm, H. – Luther’s World of Thought Buy (1958) 245 pp.
Taylor, Henry Osborn – Erasmus & Luther (1962) Book 2 of Thought & Expression in the Sixteenth Century
Althaus, Paul – The Ethics of Martin Luther Buy (1972) 196 pp.
Great reading! A classic.
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Melanchthon
Richard, James William – Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant Preceptor of the Reformation, 1497-1560 (1898) 490 pp.
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German Worship
See also our sections ‘Luther & Lutheranism’ & ‘The German Reformed Church’ on our page, The History of Psalm Singing.
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Mitchell, William – The Wedderburns & their Work, or the Sacred Poetry of the Scottish Reformation in its Historical Relation to that of Germany, a Lecture (1867) 95 pp.
Brooks, Neil – ‘German Hymns in the Church Service Before the Reformation’ (1910) 4 pp.
Kuhn, Anne Wicker – The Influence of the German Protestant Reformation upon the Music Worship of the Church (1942) 275 pp. Light print but readable
McKee, Elsie Anne – Reforming Popular Piety in Sixteenth Century Strasbourg: Katharina Schutz Zell & her Hymnbook (1994) 88 pp.
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Latin Articles
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert
Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 4 Abbr.
Of Recent Times, from Luther, in General
Of the Ancient, Protestant German Church, unto the Schism through the Book of Concord
Of the Swiss, French, Scottish, Belgic, Polish, Bohemian, Hungarian, Transylvanian & Numerous German Churches
Ecclesiastical Politics (Amsterdam: Waesberge, 1663), vol. 4, pt. 3, bk. 3, Of the Government of the Church with Respect to a State of Turbulence, Tract 1, Of the Dispersion and Regathering of the Church
9. Of the Reformation Having Been Started in the Years 1516 & 1517 by Luther and Zwingli 479
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Bibliographies
Article
1900’s
Johnson, Franklin – ‘New Light on the German Reformation’ in American Journal of Theology (1905), pp. 185-86
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Pamphlets
1800’s
ed. Robinson & Whitcomb – Translations & Reprints from the Original Sources of European History – Period of the Early Reformation in Germany (1895) 45 pp.
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1900’s
Bishop, William Warner – ‘German Reformation Pamphlets in Princeton University Library’ (1904) 24 pp.
Pauck, William – “The Historiography of the German Reformation during the Past Twenty Years” in Church History, vol. 9, no. 4 (Dec., 1940), pp. 305-40
Pauk was a professor at Chicago Theological Seminary.
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Books
1900’s
Rockwell, William – List of References on the History of the Reformation in Germany (1917) 65 pp. Most of the references are in non-English languages
Bainton, Roland H. & Eric W. Gritsch – Bibliography of the Continental Reformation (Archon Books, 1972) 240 pp. ToC
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