Archive for Reformation History (; ARG) is a specialised international annual
academic journal
An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the ...
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
Gütersloh
Gütersloh () is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the region of Ostwestfalen-Lippe and the administrative region of Detmold (administrative region), Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a Gütersloh (distric ...
, 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, 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.
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Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Archive for reformation history National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...
1904 Internet Archive
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Protestant studies journals
Publications established in 1903
Annual journals
Historiography of Christianity
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