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This is a contemporary, eyewitness account of the life of Martin
Luther translated into English. Johannes Cochlaeus (1479-1552) was
present in the great hall at the Diet of Worms on April 18, 1521
when Luther made his famous declaration before Emperor Charles V:
"Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen". Afterward,
Cochlaeus sought Luther out, met him at his inn, and privately
debated with him. Luther wrote of Cochlaeus, "may God long preserve
this most pious man, born to guard and teach the Gospel of His
church, together with His word, Amen". However, the confrontation
left Cochlaeus convinced that Luther was an impious and malevolent
man. Over the next 25 years, Cochlaeus barely escaped the Peasant's
War with his life. He debated with Melanchthon and the reformers of
Augsburg. It was Cochlaeus who conducted the authorities to the
clandestine printing press in Cologne, where William Tyndale was
preparing the first English translation of the New Testament
(1525). For an eyewitness account of the Reformation - and the
beginnings of the Catholic Counter-Reformation - no other
historical document matches the first-hand experience of Cochlaeus.
After Luther's death, it was rumoured that demons seized the
reformer on his death-bed and dragged him off to Hell. In response
to these rumours, Luther's friend and colleague, Philip Melanchthon
wrote and published a brief encomium of the reformer in 1548.
Cochlaeus consequently completed and published his monumental life
of Luther in 1549. This volume brings the two documents
head-to-head in a confrontation postponed for more than four
hundred and fifty years. In addition, this book supplies a life of
Cochlaeus, plus a full scholarly apparatus for readers who wish to
make a broader study of the period.
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