Two separately published works

by the Reformer Johann Locher, addressed to the German folk hero Karsthans by Johann Locher, d. 1524, writing under the pseudonym

$16,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

Johann Locher was an Observant Franciscan at Ulm who later became a vociferous advocate of Luther’s program of reform. Persecuted for his reformist sympathies, he eventually took refuge in Zwickau, where he published extensively between 1523 and 1524, writing against the injustices visited upon the lower classes and the corruption of the Church. He left Zwickau for Munich in late 1524, just as the Peasants’ War was breaking out. He was arrested and

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