Ueber das von der Frau Jörger ausgesetzte Stipendium für arme Studenten der Theologie.
In Raupach, Evang. Oesterreich, I. Forts., p. 65; in Moseder, Glaubensbekenntniß,p. 81 in De Wette, Vol. IV, p. 489 and in the Erlanger Ausgabe, Vol. 55, p. 32.
Grace and peace in Christ. Noble, virtuous woman! I would like you to know that the five hundred florins have come from you in good coarse coin through Wolfgang Seldener to Leipzig, and from there through George Kirmeyer to Wittenberg, and will distribute them according to your request and desire and will not forget Er Andre 4); and I have already ordered a hundred of them to be distributed with the advice of good lords and friends. Now these same good gentlemen have
4) Andreas Hügel.
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reu and friends suggested that the other four hundred should have been invested in interest and that two scholarships should have been endowed with it, so that two students could have been helped every three years; but I answered them that it was your will, as the letter says, to divide it out of your hand. They have asked me to write to you again whether it is your decided will to distribute such money out of hand among such poor fellows who study the Holy Scriptures, or whether one should endow two eternal students with it, which they consider to be the best. According to their request I have written to you before and ask you to write to me again what your will is best; so I will faithfully do. In the meantime, the four hundred guilders shall lie idle until I receive your answer, so that I do not despise the good lords' request. God hereby protect you and all yours, and may your faithful work be pleasing to his praise and honor, amen. He Michels has received a small challenge, but it shall not harm him, but rather, praise God, be of use to him. October 24, 1533.
D. Martinus Luther.
Receipt.
I, Martin Luther, D. and preacher at Wittenberg, confess with this manuscript of mine that 500 fl. of good coarse coin have been handed over to me here at Wittenberg in my parlor on account of the noble and virtuous woman Dorotheen Jörgerin, widow 2c., to be divided among poor fellows who are studying the Holy Scriptures, as she has asked me in writing. Such money has been given to me by Georg Fonwibler, citizen of Leipzig, Andreas Kirmeyer's servant from Nuremberg. Done Oct. 24, 1533, attested with my usual seal, printed here below.
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