# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1862_S338
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

338 A Contribution to the Improvement of the Editions of Luther's Works.

Vol. 56, p. 226, line 17 from the bottom, instead of "blos" [merely] read
"bos," that is, böse [evil].
Vol. 56, p. 87, line 18 from the bottom, fill the gap: "und fast" [and
almost].

III. Remarks and Explanations on Volume 56.

Vol. 56, p. 31, line 13 from the bottom, "Heinz Mordbrenner" [Heinz
the Arsonist] is: Duke Heinrich of Brunswick.

Vol. 56, p. 53, line 3 from the top, "Posamiens" is: Posamiensis.

On No. 714, compare No. 715, 726, and 743.

On Vol. 56, p. 74, line 4 from the top, "in meinem Hause" [in my
house], cf. Vol. 61, p. 185.

Vol. 56, p. 74, line 20 from the top. The sermon to which Luther
refers stands in Volume 62, p. 240; delivered on the holy feast of the
Three Kings, 1544.

Vol. 56, p. 75, line 5 from the bottom, "jenes Theil" [that party] is the
brother, cf. p. 79.

P. 76, line 4 from the bottom, "C. B." is Caspar Beyer, cf. p. 104.

P. 76, line 20 from the bottom, "M. P." is Mag. Philipp Melanchthon.

P. 81, line 15 from the bottom, "den Grafen" [the count] is probably
the Count of Schwarzburg, in whose territory Arnstadt lay.

Vol. 56, p. 32, line 12 from the bottom, "der ich auch nicht gleich
gesehen" [whom, too, I have not seen the like of] that is, "deren gleichen
ich auch nicht gesehen" [the like of whom I too have not seen].

Vol. 56, p. 105, line 6 from the bottom, "Unfall," [mishap] that her
husband was carried off in the street, cf. Vol. 64, p. 312.

Perhaps a correction of the biography of Georg Major may be gathered
from Luther's writings. I am not able to bring the matter fully into the
clear, since I lack the necessary aids. The data which Guericke, K. G.
III, 431, gives, are as follows: Georg Major, born 1502 at Nuremberg,
studied at Wittenberg from 1521, was Rector at Magdeburg and became
Superintendent at Eisleben in 1536, and in 1546 was transferred to
Wittenberg as professor and court preacher. — Against this, it appears
from Luther's works that Major was still a teacher at Magdeburg in the
year 1537 (Vol. 59, p. 124); and it is established with certainty that he
was already court preacher at Wittenberg in the year 1544 (from the
letter No. 742, Vol. 56, p. 122 ff.). Perhaps (and, if the Mag. Gregor
Maier named in Vol. 56, p. LX is identical with Georg Major, certainly)
Major was already at Wittenberg in the year 1543. Only in the two
letters No. 871 and 875, which are printed from v. Hormayr's pocket-
book, is the spelling Mag. Gregor Maier found, and — after he had
become Doctor between September 5, 1544 and January 1, 1545 —
Doctor Gregor. Very probably these two letters speak of the same
person who in other letters is called Mag. Georg Meyer or Major. So
that experts may pronounce a final judgment on this, I here let all the
passages bearing on it follow:

Vol. 56, p. LX, December 31, 1543, Mag. Gregor Maier.

P. 107, July 13, 1544, Magister Georg Meyer.
P. 111, September 5, 1544, M. Georg Major.
P. 122, January 1, 1545, the newly made Doctor George Major.