The German scholar and humanist Philip Melancthon (1497-1560) was the chief systematic theologian of the early Reformation and principal author of the famous Augsburg Confession of 1530. Philip Melancthon was born Philip Schwartzerd at Bretten in...

Philipp Melanchthon, who received his Greek last name--a translation of his real name, Schwartzerd (Black Earth)from his early mentor and distant relative Johann Reuchlin, is now chiefly known as one of the German Reformers, a close associate of Martin...

Melanchthon, Philipp(1497–1560) Philipp Melanchthon, the German reformer, was born at Bretten, Baden, and died at Wittenberg. He was a grandnephew of the great humanist Johannes Reuchlin, who encouraged him in his studies and deeply influenced...

MELANCHTHON, PHILIPP (1497–1560), born Philipp Schwartzerd; German theologian and major sixteenth-century reformer, writer of Protestantism's first systematic theology, organizer of the Protestant public school system, and author of two...

Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerd) (February 16, 1497 – April 19, 1560) was a German professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and a friend and associate of Martin...

In response to my essays of last year and the year before, a German scholar wrote me that while he agreed in general with my conclusions about Renaissance studies in his country today, he did not think that scholars were still oriented toward...

Melanchthon und die Naturwissenschaften seiner Zeit. Edited by Gunther Frank and Stefan Rhein. Melanchthon-Schriften der Stadt Bretten 4. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1998. 329 pp. 58 DM. These essays originated in a 1994 conference in Philipp Melanchthon's native city of Bretten, an...

In the following essay, Wengert provides a corrective to earlier analyses of the relations between Melanchthon and Calvin.

In the following essay, Methuen argues that Melanchthon's interest in natural philosophy is related to his educational interest, which she says depends on his particular theological and cosmological view of the universe.

In the essay which follows, Cameron finds that Melanchthon's image as “hesitant, temporising, even shifty” is not entirely without basis in historical fact but concludes too that this picture does not do justice to the man or his ideas.