Melanchthons Briefwechsel / Band T 9: Texte 2336-2604 (1540)

This volume focuses on the efforts to settle the religious dispute. Melanchthon and other theologians were important advisors in the preparations for the religious discussion announced by the emperor; among other things, they wrote expert reports as a basis for a common position on the Protestant side. In the spring of 1540, Melanchthon was in the Schmalkaldic Diet. The summer was overshadowed by Landgrave Philipp of Hesse’s bigamy, which made Melanchthon so ill that he could not go the negotiations at Hagenau. From October on Melanchthon was in Worms in order to take part in the religious discussion.