Philip Melancthon

(1497-1560)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560 LBT ID: PhMelan1560 VIAF ID: 76319978 LOC ID: n79121330	B/BAP: 1497-02-16 DIED: 1560-04-19
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German humanist, friend of Martin Luther, and leader of the Protestant reformation; he wrote the Augsburg Confession (1530).
REFERENCES TO Philip Melancthon: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch II. 1807-1810 Found 1: ¶ n2 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 7