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An Aid to Luther's Marginal Comments on Johannes Tauler's Sermons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Steven E. Ozment
Affiliation:
Yale University

Extract

In his early years, Martin Luther read and critically annotated the sermons of the German mystical theologian, Johannes Tauler O.P. (*1360). This occurred between early 1515 and mid-1516—a crucial if not the most critical period in the development of the young Luther. The copy of Tauler's sermons used by Luther was the personal copy of his friend Johannes Lang. It was published by Hannsen Otmar in Augsburg in 1508.

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Research Article
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1970

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