As early as 1526 a little volume of hymns was published at rostock in the Platt-Deutsch dialect.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
George Venetus, professor at rostock, and Counselor Andrew Mylius were commissioned to present them, first at Wittenberg, then at Magdeburg.
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente
The signatures represented theologians from Ducal Saxony, Hamburg, Bremen, Luebeck, rostock, Wismar, Brunswick, Magdeburg, Halberstadt, Koethen, Nordhausen, Schweinfurt, Regensburg, Lindau, Upper Palatinate, Hesse, Brandenburg, Electoral Saxony, Nuernberg, Augsburg, Baden, etc.
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente