Elector Bible

The Elector Bible (German: Kurfürstenbibel) is a German language folio-sized, Martin Luther translation of the Bible (Old and New Testament) that was authorized by Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and printed by Wolfgang Endter in Nuremberg, Germany from 1641 to 1758. Other names for this Bible are the Weimar Bible and the Ernestine Bible.[1]

Title page of the Elector Bible (1649). 1758

The earliest known edition to have survived to this day is the Detmold edition printed in 1649. There were 14 editions of this Bible.[1]

References
  1. "Die "Kurfürstenbibel" des Wolfgang Endter aus Nürnberg (1649)". Lippische landesbibliothek detmold. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2020.


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