Archive for Reformation History (german: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte; ARG) is a specialised international annual

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for the Reformation era. It is a bilingual joint publication of the German Verein für Reformationsgeschichte and America
Society for Reformation Research
(SRR), and also includes articles in French and Italian. Thomas Kaufmann, University of Göttingen, and Martin Kessler, University of Basel, are the European Managing Editors, responsible for articles in German, French, and Italian. Ute Lotz-Heumann and Marjorie E. Plummer, both University of Arizona, are the North American Managing Editors, responsible for articles in English.

History

The first volume of the journal was published in 1903/04 by Verlag Gerd Mohn, based in

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, under the auspices of the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte with

Walter Friedensburg Karl Walter Friedensburg (6 March 1855 in Hamburg – 19 February 1938 in Wernigerode) was a German historian and archivist. He studied history at the Universities of Göttingen and Breslau, obtaining his habilitation at the University of Marburg ...

as the editor who served until his death in 1938.

Gerhard Ritter Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (6 April 1888, in Bad Sooden-Allendorf – 1 July 1967, in Freiburg) was a nationalist-conservative German historian, who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied ...

, appointed as the new editor in 1938, jointly developed a new concept for the magazine with Otto Scheel and Heinrich Bornkamm. Publication was suspended between 1944–47 and 1949–50. The Society for Reformation Research came on board in 1951, bringing a more international dimension to the publication.

References

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Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Archive for reformation history

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