. Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 . and very dear to her father. Luthercalls her Melanchthons elegant daughter. Atthe age of fourteen she was married to George Sa-binus, a gifted but wayward poet, who neglectedher and her children. She died at Konigsberg in1547, and was buried in the cathedral there. Philipwas born January 13, 1525. He was good-natured,but weak in body and mind. He lived to beeighty years old, and died as notary of the Univer-sity of Wittenberg. George was born November25, 1527, and died when two years old. He hadalready begun to display extr
. Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 . and very dear to her father. Luthercalls her Melanchthons elegant daughter. Atthe age of fourteen she was married to George Sa-binus, a gifted but wayward poet, who neglectedher and her children. She died at Konigsberg in1547, and was buried in the cathedral there. Philipwas born January 13, 1525. He was good-natured,but weak in body and mind. He lived to beeighty years old, and died as notary of the Univer-sity of Wittenberg. George was born November25, 1527, and died when two years old. He hadalready begun to display extraordinary talents. Hisdeath brought Melanchthon inexpressible was born July 18, 1533. She was mar-ried to Caspar Peucer, who was a professor of medi-cine in the university, and afterwards became courtphysician. She died at Rochlitz, July 18, 1576,through excess of grief for her husband, who wascruelly kept a prisoner for twelve years by theElector of Saxony. To Melanchthons family belonged, also, JohnKoch, a Swabian, who entered his masters service. MELANCHTHONS HOUSE, WITTENBERG. i52o] His Theses and Marriage 65 in 1519. He was a man of some culture, chasteand a lover of chastity. He trained the childrenand managed the affairs of the house as a he died, in 1553, Melanchthon invited theacademicians to his funeral, and delivered an orationover his grave. Afterwards he wrote an epitaph forhis tomb. The house in which Melanchthon lived in Witten-berg is still standing. A tablet high up on thefront bears the following inscription : Hier wohnte, lehrte und starb Philipp Melanchthon. That is: Here lived, taught, and died Philip Melanchthon. The front room on the second story was Melanch-thons study, and finally the place of his death, aswe learn from two Latin inscriptions: Ad Boream versis oculis hac sede Melanchthon Scriptadedit, quae nunc praecipua orbis habet. That is: At this place Melanchthon, with his eyes turnedtowards the North, wrote those work
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