biography
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Melanchthon, Philipp
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originally Philipp Schwartzerd
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pronunciation:
[melangkthon]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1497–1560)
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| biography:
| Protestant reformer, born in Bretten, SW Germany. His name is a Greek translation of his German surname, ‘black earth’. He studied at Heidelberg and Tübingen, and in 1516 became professor of Greek at Wittenberg and Luther's fellow worker. His Loci communes (1512) is the first great Protestant work on dogmatic theology. He also composed the Augsburg Confession (1530). |
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