The final stages of completion are now in sight. A significant milestone has been achieved with the publication of the eighth volume of the Complete Critical Edition of Karlstadt's Letters and Writings in June 2025. This latest volume presents a comprehensive collection of Karlstadt's correspondence and writings … [Read more...]

Now its’s one stroke after the other! The seventh volume of the Complete Critical Edition of Karlstadt's Letters and Writings has been published in August 2024. It edits Karlstadt’s publications of 1524, which received the greatest attention and had the most widespread impact. His writings on the Lord’s Supper … [Read more...]

In September 2023, the sixth volume of the Complete Critical Edition of Karlstadt's Letters and Writings has been published. This volume documents the texts of 1523, when Karlstadt ceased his academic teaching and publishing. With the establishment of a parish in Orlamünde, he shifted his focus entirely to lay-based, … [Read more...]

Volume 5 of the Karlstadt Edition covers his publications and letters of 1522. At the beginning of the year, Karlstadt dominated the debate in Wittenberg with writings on city and mass reforms, the welfare of the poor, the removal of images from churches, the clerical marriage and the dissolution of monastic vows. … [Read more...]

Volume 4 of the Karlstadt Edition has recently appeared. Covering the works of 1521, this volume shows Karlstadt standing at the centre of a broad publication current of the early Reformation. Themes include practical reforms ranging from clerical marriage to the renewal of the mass. At the same time, the first deeper … [Read more...]