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Texte und Textschicksale in reformatorisch bewegter Zeit. Zum linguistischen Interesse an Texten des Greiffenberger Pastors Wolfgang Silbers des Jüngeren (1569-1639)

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After many years of search, the only surviving copy of a collection of sermons with a chronicle (965– 1618), which was printed and published in Leipzig in 1619 by Wolfgang Silber, the parson from Greiffenberg, Lower Silesia, was discovered in 2016, within the international programme “The Silesian Cultural Heritage.” The first part of the article includes information on the life and creation of the sermon’s author and presents the historical and cultural background of the book, with references to the municipality and the church. The history of Silber’s other texts is also related. The second part of the article focuses mainly on the historical and linguistic aspects of the Greiffenberg parson’s texts. Linguistic aspects of the sermon text type analysis are discussed, as well as the possibility of analysis of the toponyms related to the municipality and its vicinity.