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Luther's Room, The Wartburg Castle [Eisenach, Germany] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• beachcomber australia said:

  In 2024 via - Ozymandias -

• swanq said:

  See also photochrom from Detroit Publishing company from LoC
  www.loc.gov/item/2002720777/
  The catalog record gives a date of "[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]" with a note suggesting it was published in 1905.
  Alt URL - https//hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.01151

• swanq said:

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• swanq said:

  In early 1908, Wartburg Castle, where Luther stayed when he translated the New Testament, was in the news twice.
  
  The first was the publication of a translation into English of letters written by Martin Luther.
  
  The Argus [Albany, NY], 5 April 1908, p14, middle of right-hand column
  - www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=arg19080405-01.1...
  
  reported that Macmillan had published a collection of Martin Luther's letters, translated to English by Margaret A. Currie, from Latin and Old German (in which Luther wrote).
  
  The book is available online at
  - www.lutheranlibrary.org/pdf/557-currie-letters-of-martin-...

• swanq said:

  In March 1908, the German Kaiser William/Wilhelm objected to the U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt, having accepted the resignation of the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Charlemagne Tower.
  
  The Evening Post, 14 March 1908, page 1, bottom right-hand corner
  www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=evpo19080314-01....
  
  More about Kaiser William/Wilhelm and Champagne Tower in:
  The Sun, 15 March 1908, page 3, top of Col. 3
  www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=sun19080315-01.1...
  
  Ambassador Tower had completed an agreement for
  The Kaiser also suggested to Mr. Tower that the Arion Maennerchor of Brooklyn on its coming visit to Germany give a special performance in the historic castle of Wartburg, which Wagner has immortalized in Tannhäuser" and that later the Arion appear before him at Wilhelmehöhe.
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arion_Society_of_New_York