The Weimar edition of Luther's works, also known as the Weimarer Ausgabe (WA), is a critical complete edition of all writings of Martin Luther and his verbal statements, in Latin and German. The official title of this edition is D. Martin Luthers Werke: kritische Gesammtausgabe. Also included are Luther's Table Talk (Tischreden), Letters (Briefe), and Bible Translation (Die deutsche Bibel). The three subseries (Tischreden, Die deutsche Bibel, and Briefwechsel) are numbered separately. The publisher was Hermann Böhlau of Weimar, and Gothic rather than Roman type was used, even in the later volumes. The imprint varies; later volumes were published by Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger. Over the 120 years many editors have collaborated to prepare the contents, which have not been published in exact chronological order. The title on the spine of the volumes is Luthers Werke.

History

The editorial work on the WA began in 1883, on Luther's 400th birthday. The work was completed in 2009 in 127 volumes in quarto format with approximately 80,000 pages. It was undertaken under the direction of a commission appointed by the Prussian Ministry of Education: a supervisory role was continued by the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften after the demise of the government of Prussia. The WA is divided into four series: Subject indexes are provided for each of the series, and the WA is also available online. The WA is a comprehensive edition of all works by Martin Luther. It is the only existing edition with all the works of Martin Luther; all other editions are in some way incomplete. Editors of the edition have included Rudolf Hermann and Gerhard Ebeling.

Writings or works

Table talk

German Bible

Correspondence

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