Scholars and Publications since 2000
In the fields of Caspar Schwenckfeld and the Schwenkfelders
All of these scholars have published and lectured on various topics in addition to Schwenckfeld and Schwenkfelders; therefore, this list is only a partial blibliography of their scholarly activities.
Scholars
Erb, Peter, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Evers, Ute, Ph.D., Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Philologisch-Historische Fakultät, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Gamman, Andrew, M.Th., Laidlaw-Carey Graduate School of Theology, Auckland, New Zealand
Gouldbourne, Ruth, Ph.D.
Gritschke, Caroline, Ph.D.
Ilić, Luka, M.Th., Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia (Ph.D. candidate)
Mielke, Heinz-Peter, Ph.D., Niederrheinisches Freilichtmuseum, Grefrath, Germany
Rothkegel, Martin, Th.D., Professor für Kirchengeschichte, Theologisches Seminar Elstal, Germamny
Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm, Prof. Dr., Geschichte der Philosophie und der Geisteswissenschaften, Institut für Philosophie, Freie Universität Berlin
Viehmeyer, L. Allen, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio; Associate Director of Research, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center.
Weigelt, Horst, Prof. em. Dr., Evangelische Theologie, Lehrstuhl für Historische und Systematische Theologie, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamburg, Germany
Publications since 2000
Ute Evers
Das Geistliche Lied der Schwenckfelder. Mainzer Studien Zur Musikwissenschaft, vol. 44. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2007.
"darzu hat weiland Sixtus Dieterich der beruembte Componist vier stimmen componiert – Eine schwenckfeldische Gesangbuch-Handschrift als Quelle für verlorene Liedsätze von Sixt Dietrich?", in: Musik in Bayern 69 (2005), pp. 29-51.
Reißner, Adam. Gesangbuch. Edited by Johannes Burkhart, Johannes Janota, and Helmut Koopmann, in Zusammaenarbeit mit Ute Evers kommentiert. Studia Augustana, vol. 12, 13. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2004.
Andrew Gamman
Gamman, Andrew. "How the Concepts of Invisible and Visible Church Functioned in the Ecclesiology of the Radical Reformation." M.Th. thesis, Laidlaw-Carey Graduate School of Theology, 2008.
Ruth Gouldbourne
The Flesh and the Feminine: Gender and Theology in the Writing of Caspar Schwenckfeld. Studies in Christian History and Thought. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2006.
Caroline Gritschke
'Via Media': Spiritualistische Lebenswelten und Konfessionalisierung. Das Süddeutsche Schwenckfeldertum Im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Colloquia Augustana, vol. 22. Johannes Burkhart, Theo Stammen, and Wolfgang E. J. Weber, gen. ed. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2006.
Luka Ilić
Heinz-Peter Mielke
Kirche im Geheimen. Orthodoxes und liberales Schwenkfeldertum in Süddeutschland und seine Auswirkung auf Geistesgeschichte und politisches Handeln in der Spätrenaissance. In progress.
"Hans Döring and the Schwenckfeld Woodcut of 1562" In Tradition and Formation: Claiming an Inheritance, Essays in Honour of Peter C. Erb, edited by Michael Desjardins and Harold Remus, 83-85. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2008.
Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
"Spiritualistische Exegese Im Streit. Brenz, Soto, Schwenckfeld, Flacius." In Radikalität und Dissent Im 16. Jahrhundert. Vol. 27 of Zeitschrift Für Historische Forschung, edited by Hans-Jürgen Goertz and James M. Stayer, 141-66. Berlin, 2002.
Martin Rothkegel
"Ausbreitung und Verfolgung der Täufer in Schlesien in Den Jahren 1527-1548." Archiv für Schlesische Kirchengeschichte 61 (2003): 149-209.
L. Allen Viehmeyer
"Abraham Wagner and George de Benneville: Physicians of Body and Soul. German Practitioners in Colonial Pennsylvania." In Medical Theory and Therapeutic Practice in the Eighteenth Century: A Transatlantic Perspective, edited by Jürgen Helm and Renate Wilson, 261-279. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008.
"The Postil. A Schwenkfelder Devotional Book." The Schwenkfeldian (Pennsburg, PA), Winter 2008, 6-8.
"Schwenkfelder Confessions of Faith, Part 1." The Schwenkfeldian (Pennsburg, PA), Winter 2009, 6-11.
"Schwenkfelder Confessions of Faith, Part 2." The Schwenkfeldian (Pennsburg, PA), Spring 2009, 3-8.
"Schwenkfelder Fraktur and Hymn Texts." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County Pennsylvania 36, no. 1 (2009): 39-55.
"Schwenkfelder Literacy and Education to 1834." In Tradition and Formation: Claiming an Inheritance, Essays in Honour of Peter C. Erb, edited by Michael Desjardins and Harold Remus, 99-119. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2008.
"Schwenkfelders." In Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia, edited by Thomas Adam, vol. 3, 960-64. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, England: ABC Clio, 2005.
Gabriela Wąs
Kaspar von Schwenckfeld Myśl i Działalność do 1534 roku. Historia, vol. 169. Wroclaw, 2005.
Horst Weigelt
"Schwenkfelder." In Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Handwörterbuch Für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft, vol. 4, 1074. Tübingen, 2004.
Von Schlesien Nach America: Die Geschichte Des Schwenkfeldertums. Neue Forschungen Zur Schlesischen Geschichte, vol. 14. Köln: Böhlau, 2007.
"Zinzendorf und die Schwenckfelder." In Neue Aspekte der Zinzendorf-Forschung, edited by Martin Brecht and Paul Peucker, 64-96. Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Pietismus, vol. 47.: Vandenhoech & Ruprecht, 2006.
Unpublished Conference Papers and Lectures since 2000
Peter Erb
"O.S. Kriebel." Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, April 6, 2007.
"Schwenkfelder Gifts to the Christian Church" Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, April 6, 2008.
"’Pictures Worth a Thousand Words’: Schwenkfelders and Emblem Books." Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, April 9, 2008.
Ute Evers
"A Schwenkfelder Manuscript Hymnbook as Source for Lost Tenorlied-Settings by Sixt Dietrich." Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Glasgow, July 2004.
"Entstehung und Repertoire der schwenckfeldischen tunebooks," Musik und kulturelle Identität, Weimar, September 2004.
"Wer heurat der hat trüebsal – Schwenckfeldische Ehestandslieder," "...mit immerwährender Begier" – Erotische Motive im geistlichen Lied, Mülheim an der Ruhr, October 2004.
Luka Ilić
"The Theological Debate between Schwenckfeld and Matthias Flacius Illyricus" (School of Christ, Schwenkfelder Central Church) Worcester, PA, October 18, 2009/
"Schwenckfeld and Flacius" (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center) Pennsburg, PA, October 14, 2009.
L. Allen Viehmeyer
"Abraham Wagner and George de Benneville: Physicians of Body and Soul. German Practitioners in Colonial Pennsylvania." Presented at the Conference on Eighteenth Century Medical Practice. Halle, Germany, October 7-8, 2005.
"Abraham Wagner Schwenkfelder Arzt und Dichter." Berthelsdorf, Germany, 15-16 October 2005.
"The Almanac Diaries of David Schultz." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center), July 9 and 13, 2008.
"Balthasar Hoffmann Hymn Writer and Interpreter." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center), June 10 and 14, 2009.
"Berthelsdorf, Herrnhut, and Görlitz: Schwenkfelder Refuges." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, June 13 and 17, 2007.
"Caspar Schwenckfeld in Exile." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center), April 13, 2008.
"Caspar Schwenckfeld's Publications, Printing Conventions at the Time, and Colonial Schwenkfelder Libraries." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, January 17and 28, 2007.
"Crossing Tales. Various Accounts of the Schwenkfelder Journey from Saxony to Pennsylvania as Well as Gottlieb Mittelberger, Franz Michel, Etc." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, December 18, 2003.
"The David Seipt Family." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center), March 11 and 16, 2009.
"Erasmus Weichenhan: Minister to Schwenkfelders." (Lecture, School of Christ, Central Schwenkfelder Church). Worcester, PA, October 21, 2007.
"Expressions of Faith - Excerpts from Rosina and Christoph Hoffmann Correspondence." (Lecture, Central Schwenkfelder Church). Worcester, PA, July 11, 2004.
"George de Benneville and the Schwenkfelders." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center), September 10 and 14, 2008.
"George Hauptmann: Notable Schwenkfelder." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, February 13 and 17, 2008.
"Harpersdorf and Berthelsdorf Church Records." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, April 11 and 22, 2007.
"Harpersdorf to Philadelphia." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center), August 12 and 16, 2009.
"Martin John the Younger." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center), February 11 and 15, 2009.
"Melchior Heebner and Abraham Wagner." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, January 9 and 13, 2008.
"Pietism, Radical Pietism, and Schwenkfelders." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, February 18 and 21, 2007.
"Practitioner in Physick: A Biography of Abraham Wagner, 1717-1763." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, October 16, 2003.
"The Rosina and Christoph Hoffmann Correspondence with Relatives and Friends in Silesia." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, April 15, 2004.
"The Rosina and Christoph Hoffmann Correspondence with Relatives in Silesia." (Lecture, The Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, October 26, 2003
"Schultz / Schultz Correspondance." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center), November 8 and 11, 2008.
"Schwenkfelder Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, December 13, 2006.
"Schwenkfelder Hymnbooks." Presented at the Conference on Moravian History and Music. The Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, October 9, 2008.
"Schwenkfelder Hymnology and The Sources of the First Schwenkfelder Hymn-Book Printed in America." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, May 20, 2004.
"Schwenkfelder Hymns." Worcester, PA: Central Schwenkfelder Church, July 4, 2004.
"Schwenkfelder Secular Education and Educational Tools Between 1700 and 1834." Presented at the Symposium on The ABCs of German-American Education in Pennsylvania Prior to the Public School Movement of 1834. Pennsburg, PA: Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, June 30, 2007.
"Schwenkfelder Use of the Hymnal of the Bohemian Brethren." Presented at the Symposium on Eighteenth and Nineteen Century Sacred Vocal Music in Pennsylvania German Culture, June 20, 2009.
"Schwenkfelder Women: Helena Heydrich." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, August 8 and 12, 2007.
"Schwenkfelder Women: Rosina Drescher Hoffmann." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center), June 13 and 15, 2008.
"Schwenkfelders in Eighteenth Century Silesia and Pennsylvania - Community and Private Correspondence." Presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE, October 5-7, 2006.
"Schwenkfelders in Silesia and Colonial Pennsylvania." Presented at the Workshop on de Benneville and Wagner Medical Manuscripts. College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA, June 28, 2004.
"The Spiritual Diary of Christopher Wiegner." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, March 18, 2004.
"The Story of the Vindication of Caspar Schwenckfeld." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, March 14 and 25, 2007.
"Susanna Heebner - Fraktur Artist." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center), September 9 and 13, 2009.
"The Trek to Rotterdam." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, September 12 and 16, 2007.
"The Tumultuous Years: Schwenkfelder Chronicles, 1580-1750 : The Reports of Martin John Jr. and Balthasar Hoffmann." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, November 13, 2003.
"The Viehweg: A History." (Brown Bag Lecture Series, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center). Pennsburg, PA, July 11 and 15, 2007.