rid of him. All our friends send you greetings. There is no news here except that the Margrave * is undertaking a cam- paign against a certain knight who invaded his lands and committed a robbery. Farewell in Christ, dear friend, you and your wife. Amen. Martin Lvther.
802. LUTHER TO NICHOLAS HAUSMANN. Endcrs, vi, 314. Wittenberg, August 5, 1528.
y/tjTSice and peace. My little Hans thanks you, dear Nich- olas, for the rattles. He is very proud of them and takes great pleasure in them. I had determined to write something about the Turkish war,* but I hope it will be needless. My little daughter Elizabeth is dead.* It is marvellous how sick at heart, how almost womanish it has left me, so much do I grieve for her. I would never have believed that a father's heart could be so tender for his child. Pray the Lord for me, and farewell/
About the release of that nun in Freiberg * nothing has been done ; it was merely a plan, so your mind may be at rest.
Martin Luther.
803. JOHN HASENBERG TO MARTIN LUTHER AT WITTEN- BERG. Enders, vi, 322. Leipsic, August 10, 1528.
Hasenberg, a prot^e of Duke George, at whose request he was made dean of the faculty of arts (1525) and Vice-Chancellor, 1533, in the University of Leipsic, later (1546) preceptor of Ferdinand's children, sent this letter, with the one next translated, from Heyden to Cath- arine Luther, to Wittenberg by special messenger. Luther refused to see the messenger, and let him know that he used the letters for toilet paper. The letters were soon printed, and Luther answered, in Ein neue Fabel Aesops, reprinted Weimar, xxvi, 534. Hasenberg replied by publishing, in 1530, a Ludus Lutherum ludens. Further particulars in Weimar, loc, cit, Cf. also ARG., ix, 24off. Forstemann and Gunther : Brief e an Erasmus, 1904, p. 366f .
^The Margrave of Brandenburg; the knight in question is Nicholas (mckd) von Minlcwitz.
'The purpose was only postponed, not abandoned, for the tract Vom Kritgt wider die TUrcken (Weimar, xxx,' loSff.) was published in April, 1529.
- She died August 3, at the age of lesv than eight months.
- Ursula von Mfinsterberg. Luther had written to Hausmann, June 29 (Enders,.
▼if ^5)» that she had asked his help in releasing her from the nunnery. Vide infra, no. 809.
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