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- ↑ Hans Volz, "Heinrich von Kettenbach" in Neue Deutsche Biographie, Volume 8 (1969), pp. 412-413.
- ↑ Christopher Close, The Negotiated Reformation: Imperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Reform, 1525-1550, (2009), p. 3.
- 1 2 Jakob Franck, "Heinrich von Kettenbach" in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 15 (1882), pp. 676-678.
- ↑ Peter Matheson, Rhetoric of the Reformation, (1998), pp. 81-111.
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