The original of this letter in the Anhaltisches Gesammtarchiv in Zerbst has in the inscription of the letter not
1) Instead of "so" we have assumed "se".
2) Lautensack, born in Bamberg in 1478, was a painter and, in the early 1920s, organist and caretaker of the upper parish church in Bamberg. After the Peasants' War he had to leave Bamberg and went to Nuremberg. As early as 1530 he was suspected of Zwinglianism, but when called before the council he declared that he was being wronged and that he had no doubt about the words of Christ. Later he surrendered completely to mysticism and Schwenkfeldianism and was therefore expelled from the city in 1542; however, he sneaked back in and died there in August 1558.
3) There seems to be an error in this dating, because the day of the week is not mentioned. We followed Kolde's dating, Analecta, p. 185.
"hero", which almost all editions offer, but: Georgio N., because Luther did not know his surname. That the addressee's name was Funk is clear from Hausmann's note on the address of the original. Funk drowned on May 27, 1534 while bathing in the Mulde. (Erl. Briefw., Vol. IX, p. 280.)
No. 1966a.