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Overview of the Heinrich Bullinger Correspondence

Total Number of Letters Received: Approx. 12,000

Letters to Bullinger:

ca. 10,000

Letters from Bullinger:

ca. 2,000

A Comparison of Important 16th Century Correspondence

Luther:

ca. 4,200

Zwingli:

ca. 1,300

Calvin:

ca. 4,200

Bucer:

ca. 2,600

Erasmus:

ca. 3,100

Melanchthon:

ca. 10,000

Bullinger’s Correspondents: Over 1,000 Individuals and Corporations

Most important correspondents in terms of volume

Johannes Haller, Dean in Bern:

662 letters to B. (57 from B.)

Ambrosius Blarer, Reformer from Constance:

572 letters to B. (162 from B.)

Johannes Fabricius, Pastor in Chur:

395 letters to B. (309 from B.)

Oswald Myconius, Antistes from Basel:

354 letters to B. (216 from B.)

Theodor Beza, Calvin's successor:

267 letters to B. (169 from B.)

Language of the Letters

Ca. 4/5

Latin

Ca. 1/5

Early Modern High German
Sporadically French/Italian/Greek
Occasionally Hebrew words and sentences