# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1862_S310
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310 A Contribution to the Improvement of the Editions of Luther's Works.

Vol. 54, p. 219, line 11 from the top: Muhlpfort, town bailiff in Zwickau; compare
No. 22.

By means of Letter No. 367, Vol. 54, p. 231, which was written with reference to
the writing "Against the Assassin at Dresden," the time of its
composition can be more precisely determined. In the year 1531 Easter fell
on April 9; hence the Easter fair, which, beginning with the Sunday Misericordias Domini,
lasts three weeks, ran from April 24 to May 13. According to our letter,
this little book had already reached Dresden by May 8, and in the writing
itself, Volume 25, p. 107, Luther says: "But I had to hurry to get it to the
Leipzig market" — meaning: with this writing. The opening words of the writing,
Vol. 25, p. 89, could therefore at most prove that Luther
composed it during the Leipzig fair, in its first days. Seckendorf's statement
in the historical introduction, Vol. 25, p. 89, is probably
correct, and the editor of the Erlangen edition's remark is
to be altered in accordance with what has just been said.

On Vol. 54, p. 232, line 11 from the top: "they wanted to help me finish off the
assassin's book entirely, for I want to take it up again" — compare Vol. 25, p. 107,
"but soon afterward I will comb out his delicate little book further."

Vol. 54, p. 263, line 9 from the bottom: Johann Memminger is Johannes Schmelz,
or Smelz, of Memmingen; compare No. 269 and Vol. 65, VI.

Vol. 54, p. 275, line 13 from the bottom: Johannes is Johannes Rischmann, Luther's
servant; compare p. 276, No. 391.

Vol. 54, p. 276, line 13 from the top: Mühlfurt, the town bailiff of Zwickau,
and Riedesel: Johannes von Riedtesel, Electoral Saxon chamberlain; compare No. 428.

Vol. 54, p. 281, line 9 from the top: "I have written," namely, the letter
No. 379.

Vol. 54, p. 301, No. 404, line 1: "the electors," [meaning] Mainz and the Palatinate;
compare p. 303.

Vol. 54, p. 318, line 1 from the top: "Trauung" [marriage], that is, "Drohung" [threat].

Vol. 54, p. 334, No. 423: "D. C." is Dr. Christian Bayer, Electoral Saxon
chancellor; compare p. 336 and No. 289.

Vol. 54, p. 345, line 7 from the top: "sein" [his], that is, "säen" [to sow].

Vol. 54, p. 346, line 5 from the top: "Münster," that is, Münzer. On Hätzer, compare
Guericke, Church History III, 696.

I. Principal Corrections to Volume 55.

The heading of No. 437, Vol. 55, p. 6, must read: "To Johannes,
Prince of Anhalt," instead of Joachim; see No. 786d.

No. 446 has the correct date, June 19, 1533. Vitus falls on the
15th of June, hence Feria V post Viti [the Thursday after Vitus] is the 19th of June.
Accordingly the dates of No. 468 and 786e are to be corrected. This letter has also
been duplicated by de Wette with the same errors: IV, 460, and IV, 536. Likewise Walch X,
2122, and XXI, 1407.