The picture is, in the circumstances, naturally drawn from the angle of a poignant sense of loss. Nevertheless, the words ad dressed by one who had been Luther's close associate as disciple, co-worker and friend for nearly 3o years to an audience which had known him in daily intercourse for a longer period, leave on the reader the impression of having been uttered in complete sincerity and truth.
W e r k e, Kritische Gesammtausgabe (Weimar), still in course of publication, though many volumes have ap peared. (The standard edition) ; Luther's Sammtliche Werke (Erlangen, 1830 seq.) ; Mart. Lutheri Opera Latina, edit. by Schmidt (1865 seq.) ; Luther's Siimmtliche Schriften, edit. by Walch, with translations of the Latin works; Mart. Luther's Briefwechsel, edit. by Enders (1884 seq.) , continued by Kawerau and Flemming ; Luther's Tischreden in the Weimar edition and the older edition of Forstemann and Bindseil; Vorlesung caber den Romerbrief, edit. by Ficher (1908) ; Dokumente zu Luther's Entwicklung, edit. by 0. Scheel (191I) ; Die iiltesten Ethischen Disputationen Luther's, ed. by Stange (1904) ; Luther's 95 Theses sammt seinen. Resolutionen, den Gegenschriften von Wimpina Tetzel, Eck and Prierias and den Antworten Luther's darauf, edit. by W. Kohler (19°3), Dokumente zum Ablass-streit, edit. by Kohler (1902) ; Mart. Luther, Ausgewiihlte Werke, edit. by Borcherdt; Luther's Primary Works, edit. by Wace and Buchheim ; Melanchthon, Historia de Vita et Actis Lutheri, Corpus Reformatorum, vi. Melanch thoni Opera, in ibid.; Balan, Monumenta Reformationis Lutheranae, 1521-25 (1884) ; Mathesius, Historien von Martini Lutheri, Anfang, Lehre, Leben and Sterben (1896 ed.) ; Myconius, Historia Reforma tionis 1517-42, edit. by Clemen ; Ratzeberger, Geschichte caber Luther und seine Zeit; Forstemann, Neues Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte der evang. Kirchenreformation (1842) ; Kolde, Analecta Lutherana (1883) ; Losche, Vollstandige Reformations-Acta und Documente; Cochlaeus, Commentarius de Actis et Scriptis Mart. Lutheri (Rom. Cath.) ; the
works of Luther's Roman Catholic opponents in the Corpus Catholi corum, in course of publication ; Deutsche Reichstagsakten unter Kaiser Karl V.; Kalkoff, Depeschen des Aleander (1897) ; Brieger, Aleander und Luther 1521 (1884 giving the dispatches to Rome in the original) ; the Elector Frederick's Briefwechsel mit Herzog Johann, edit. by Forstemann; Akten and Briefe zur Kirchen politik Herzog Georgs von Sachsen, edit. by Gess (1905-17) ; Schirmacher, Briefe und Akten zu der Geschichte des Religionsgespraches zu Marburg 1529, and des Reichstages zu Augsburg 1530 (1876).
Modern Works.—O. Scheel, Martin Luther (3rd ed., 1921) ; Hall, Gesammelte Aufslitze zur Kirchen-Geschichte (1925 ed.) ; MacKinnon, Luther and the Reformation, i., (1925-29, the concluding vol. iv., approaching completion) ; Strohl, L'Evolution Religieuse de Luther jusqu'en 1515 (1923) ; Kalkoff, Entscheidungsjahre der Refor mation (1917), Forschungen zu Luther's Romi,schen Prozess and other standard contributions; Khstlin, Martin Luther, 5th ed. revision com pleted by Kawerau, 1903; Hausrath, Luther's Leben (19o4, recently revised by von Schubert) ; Boehmer, Luther im Lichte der neueren Forschung (5th ed., 1918) ; W. Kohler, Zwingli und Luther I. (1925) ; Preserved Smith, Life and Letters of Martin Luther (1914) ; Mc Giffert, Martin Luther (1911) ; von Schubert, Bekenntnisbildung und Religionspolitik, 1529-30 (Iwo) ; von Bezold, Geschichte der Deutschen Reformation (189o) ; von Below, Ursachen der Reformation (1917) ; Lindsay, History of the Reformation, i. (19o9) ; Kohler, Luther und die Deutsche Reformation (1917) ; L. Febvre, Martin Luther (1929).
See also REFORMATION. (J. M.)