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 196 LUTHER'S CORRESPONDENCE AND Let i6o

Burckhardt is otherwise unknown to me, save that he was also a professor of law at Ingolstadt, and possibly a relative of Peter Burckhardt, on whom cf, no. 164.

Greeting. Our friendship demands that I should give you news of myself. At first the strong, heating beer was bad for me. From Pfreimd to Gera I didn't have a single good drink. At Leipsic also the beer was bad for me, so I stopped drinking it for six days, and feel better. . ..

Luther and Carlstadt entered in great state, with two hun- dred Wittenberg students, four doctors, three licentiates, many professors and many Lutherans, Lang of Erfurt the Vicar, impudent Egranus, the preacher of Gorlitz,^ the pastor of Annaberg, Bohemians and Hussites sent from Prague, and many heretics who give out that Luther is an able defender of the truth, not inferior to John Huss. . ..

So far of Carlstadt, now of the other monster, Luther. [On the margin Eck wrote: "I have done Luther a good mischief, of which I will tell you orally."] At his arrival I heard that he did not want to debate, and I moved everything to get him to. We met in the presence of the ducal commis- sioners and of the university ; I left everything to them ; they wanted Luther to debate on the same conditions as Carlstadt, but he said much about instructions from his prince. I said to him I did not want the elector as judge, though I did not exclude him; that he might choose a university and if Ger- many were too small, he might take one abroad, in France or Spain. But he would not have any judge, and was there- fore not admitted to debate, for, according to the ducal in- structions, no one should debate who did not allow a judge. I desired at that time that the commissioners and university should give me a testimony of this, although many of them are Lutherans. Dr. Auerbach," the physician of the Archbishop of

Leipsic, where they arrived June 24* Carlstadt and Eck debated June 37-July 3, and again July 15 and 16. Luther and Eck debated July 4-14. The best account of the sojourn at Leipsic and the debate there is found in a letter of Luther to Spalatin, dated (Wittenberg), July ao, 15 19, translated in Smith, op, cii., pp. 64*68. Other accounts are given below.

^The Reformation was started at Gorlitz in 1532 by the pastor Francis Roth- hart; I cannot say whether he is the one here meant.

of "Auerbach's Keller" celebrated in Faust, matriculated at Leipsic 1497, M. A. 1502, taught philosophy. Rector of the University 1508. Then he studied medicine.
 * K. Stromer von Auerbach (uSa-November 36, 154a), famous as the first host

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