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Luther's German New Testament (1522)

Luther's translation of the New Testament into German, begun at the Wartburg and printed at Wittenberg in September 1522.

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Dates
Sep 1522
Place
Wittenberg
Also known as
September Testament, Septembertestament, Das Newe Testament Deutzsch
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Q109300862

Translated by Martin Luther and printed with the Printing press. It was later joined to the Old Testament in the Luther Bible.

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  • Melchior Lotter Dec 1522 Scholarship & press 1

    He printed the December Testament of 1522 at Wittenberg.

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  • Erasmus's Greek New Testament Scholarship & press 13

    The Pitts Theology Library adds that Luther worked from the Greek rather than merely translating the Vulgate.

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  • Wartburg Dec 1521 – Feb 1522 Scholarship & press 1
  • Wittenberg 1522 Scholarship & press 1

    Revised at Wittenberg after Luther returned, with Melanchthon and others.

Timeline 6 dates
  1. Dec 1521 – Feb 1522 Luther's German New Testament (1522) written at Wartburg
  2. 1522 Martin Luther authored Luther's German New Testament (1522)
  3. 1522 Luther's German New Testament (1522) written at Wittenberg
  4. Sep 1522 Luther's German New Testament (1522)
  5. Dec 1522 Melchior Lotter produced Luther's German New Testament (1522)
  6. 1534 Luther's German New Testament (1522) part of Luther Bible
Proof 3 sources
  1. Luther's Bible Translations - 1522: the September Testament and the December Testament (Gruber Rare Books Collection), Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, JKM Library. Scholarship & press
    Wittenberg: Melchior Lotther, 1522 (December Testament).
    Some 3-5,000 copies were printed and by December, 1522, a second edition, called the December Testament had to be published.
    By the time Luther published the complete Bible in 1534, 87 editions of his New Testament had been published in High German and some 19 in Low German.
    He had begun that during his stay at the Wartburg
    In September, 1522, Luther published the first edition of his translation of the New Testament.
    Luther's translation was based on the second edition of the Greek text edited by Erasmus in 1519.
    He had begun that during his stay at the Wartburg, in eleven weeks from December 1521 to February 1522, but it was revised in collaboration with Melanchthon and others after he had returned to Wittenberg.
  2. The Luther Bible (1534), editors' introduction, German History in Documents and Images (German Historical Institute Washington). Scholarship & press
    Martin Luther's German translation of the New Testament was printed in 1522
  3. Printing the Reformation (Reformation Counterfeits), Pitts Theology Library, Emory University. Scholarship & press
    Erasmus' New Testament provided the basis for the translation.
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