Melchior Hoffman: The Writings. Critical Edition

梅尔基奥尔·霍夫曼被认为是德国宗教改革中最不符合启示录的人，尽管他已经开始了一个强大而重要的再洗礼派继承。霍夫曼于1495年左右出生在斯瓦比亚-弗朗哥帝国城镇Schwäbisch Hall，作为一名毛皮商，他沿着汉萨同盟的航线旅行，并在德语地区的边界传教，先后在瑞典的里加、多尔帕特和雷瓦尔等波罗的海城市，然后在丹麦的荷尔斯泰因、弗里斯兰和莱茵上游河谷。在斯特拉斯堡，他遭到了市议会和镇上新教传教士的迫害，在地牢里被囚禁了十年，直到1543年去世。在他的道路上，他用激进的、个人的、唯灵论的和启示录的信仰进行了有说服力的布道，他似乎已经测试了当代的改革，尤其是路德教的教义，并拒绝了其中的大部分。他在基尔经营着自己的印刷厂，在斯特拉斯堡异见者出版社的秘密环境中与印刷商合作，甚至设法让他在狱中写的小册子在科隆和荷兰印刷，供他在那里的追随者使用。1530年以后，他开始在东弗里斯兰施洗（在世界末日到来之前，他预料到了世界末日的到来），再洗礼派“王国”的主人公，以及荷兰的再洗礼派教徒，如奥布·菲利普斯，尤其是他的门徒门诺·西蒙斯，门诺派的创始人，都遵循了霍夫曼的传统。编辑项目将使全面访问梅尔基奥尔·霍夫曼的完整作品，一个广泛的文本语料库（约1600页，在早期的现代印刷版）。这些文本代表了与神学问题（例如基督论，自由意志，圣餐，启示录，圣经解释学，反教权主义，教会治理，剑，神秘主义）相关的激进改革思想的重要话语体，这些问题自卡尔霍尔的有影响力的工作以来一直被标记为本质上路德异端主义的核心。研究文学和语言的历史学家会在其中发现各种各样的方言、文学体裁和修辞形式，以及宗教知识和作者身份的概念。研究印刷术和早期现代媒体变革的历史学家将能够发现一个“有文化，但没有学问”（a .斯奈德）的非专业传教士的声音和作用。网站版本除了包含编辑过的文本（按照TEI-XML编码方案进行标记）之外，还包含早期现代印刷页面的高分辨率图像、关键设备、学术注释和进一步转录整理的印刷材料。印刷版将提供编辑文本的注释和全面的介绍。

Melchior Hoffman has been understood as the great apocalyptic misfit of the german reformation despite having started himself a strong and vital anabaptist succession. Born about 1495 in the swabian-franconian imperial town of Schwäbisch Hall, as a furrier Hoffman travelled along Hanseatic League shipping routes and preached at the borders of german speaking regions, in Baltic cities like Riga, Dorpat and Reval, in Sweden, then in Danish Holstein, in Frisia and the upper Rhine valley. In Strasbourg he met with persecution by the city council and the protestant preachers of the town and was imprisoned for ten years in a dungeon until his death problably in 1543. On his way he seems to have tested – while preaching persuasivly with a radical, personal, spiritualistic and apocalyptic faith – contemporary reformation and especially lutheran doctrines, and rejected most of them. He ran his own printing business in Kiel, collaborated with printers in the clandestine milieu of Strasbourg dissident presses and even managed to get tracts he had written in prison printed in Cologne and the Netherlands for his followers there. After 1530 he had begun to baptise in East Frisia (before returning to Strasbourg for the end of the world, as he expected it to come), protagonists of the anapabtist „kingdom“ of Münster as well as dutch anabaptists like Obbe Philips and especially his disciple Menno Simons, the founder of Mennonitism, followed in Hoffman’s tradition. The editorial project will enable full access to the complete works of Melchior Hoffman, an extensive corpus of texts (ca. 1600 p. in early modern print editions). The texts represent a body of important discourses of ‚radical reformation‘ thinking in relation to theological problems (e.g. christology, the free will, the eucharist, apocalypticism, biblical hermeutics, anticlericalism, gouvernance of church, the sword, mysticism), that have been marked since Karl Holl’s influencial work as the core of essentially lutheran hereticism. Historians of literature and language will find in it a wide range of dialects, literary genres and rhetorical forms, of concepts of religious knowledge and authorship. Historians of the printing press and early modern media transformation will be able to discover the voice and the agency of a „literate, but not learned“ (A. Snyder) lay preacher. The website edition contains, alongside with the edited texts (marked up following TEI-XML encoding schemes) high resolution images of the early modern print page, critical apparatus, scholarly annotations and further transcribed material of collated prints. The print version will provide the edited text with annotations and comprehensive introductions.