Person
Philip Melanchthon
Wittenberg scholar who worked with Luther on the German Bible and whose preface of 1546 first reports the posting of the theses.
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- Philipp Melanchthon
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Philip Melanchthon came to Wittenberg in August 1518. His preface of 1546 is the earliest report that Luther posted the theses on a church door.
Connections 3
worked at
- University of Wittenberg 1518 professor of Greek Scholarship & press 1
signed
- Marburg Articles 3 Oct 1529 Primary record 2
developed
- Luther Bible collaborated on the translation Scholarship & press 3
Timeline 2 dates
- 1518 Philip Melanchthon worked at University of Wittenberg
- 3 Oct 1529 Philip Melanchthon signed Marburg Articles
Proof 3 sources
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The Life and Letters of Martin Luther, by Preserved Smith, Houghton Mifflin, Boston (scan on the Internet Archive), 1911.
Scholarship & press
When called in this year to teach Greek at the University of Wittenberg, Melanchthon was not yet twenty-one.
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The Marburg Colloquy: The Marburg Articles (1529), German History in Documents and Images (German Historical Institute Washington), 3 Oct 1529.
Primary record
Martin Luther Justus Jonas Philipp Melanchthon Andreas Osiander
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The Luther Bible (1534), editors' introduction, German History in Documents and Images (German Historical Institute Washington).
Scholarship & press
While Luther is named as its author, other scholars such as Philip Melanchton collaborated on the translation.
Page history 2 changes
- Join the Chicago physicists, Melanchthon, Paulson, Rubin and Robinhood to their institutions and events, and set aside leads that do not hold0ce4b81
- Add the story Ninety-Five Theses, with its people, places, works and sources, and a relation for where a work was writtenf0e490a
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