The best guide to the individual writings and main editions of Luther’s works in Latin, German, French, and English is the

Hilfsbuch zum Lutherstudium

edited by Kurt Aland (4th edn., 1996). The pamphlets and books that were printed prior to Luther’s death in 1546 have been catalogued in two volumes by Josef Benzing and Helmut Claus in

Lutherbibliographie (1989/1994). The Kessler Reformation collection in the Pitts Library at Emory University contains over 3.500 Bibles, books, and pamphlets printed no later than 1570 and attributed to Martin Luther, his friends, and opponents. Available online from the same collection is a digital collection of woodcuts from Reformation pamphlets (

http:// www.pitts.emory.edu/dia/woodcuts.htm ). The most thorough ongoing bibliography of new editions, translations, and writings about Luther appears annually in

Lutherjahrbuch (Göttingen, 1919ff.). The recent

Luther Handbuch

edited by Albrecht Beutel (Tübingen, 2006) has brief surveys of newer editions, aids, and histories of Luther research, plus essays on Luther’s life and work and a manageable bibliography and index. The most versatile visual resource is the CD-ROM produced by Helmar Junghans,

Martin Luther: Exploring His Life and Times, 1483-1546 . Available in German (1998) and English (1999), it contains everything historical, theological, biographical, and textual relating to Luther and his world in formats that include illustrated explanations, chronologies, images of people and texts, listings, plus an animated story of Luther’s life for children of all ages.

For most of his career, Martin Luther exhibited an astounding capacity for work. The words put on paper by him or recorded by listeners fill over 100 large volumes in the only critical edition that aspires to completeness. The first volume of this Weimar edition appeared in 1883 during the 400th anniversary of Luther’s birth; after 126 years, the last volume appeared in 2009, but documents are still being found that contain new material or require revision of works edited decades ago. The Weimar edition has four sections. The first 60 volumes contain Luther’s lectures, sermons, postils, disputations, polemical writings, pedagogical and political essays, prefaces composed for a variety of publications, hymns, liturgies, and consolatory pieces dedicated to victims of religious persecution. Five volumes each of indexes to the Latin and German writings plus other index volumes complete section one (abbreviated WA). The second section (WABr) contains Luther’s correspondence. Over 3.700 documents, of which 2.650 items were written by Luther himself, are edited in the first 13 volumes. The remaining volumes in this section contain excellent indexes. The third section (WADB) assembles documents by Luther and his colleagues that arose in connection with their translation of the Bible. In addition to German texts of biblical books, these 12 volumes include a revision of the Latin Vulgate and a record of how the German translation was revised. The fourth and final section (WATR) presents in six volumes a collation of earlier editions of Luther’s

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