Philip Melanchthon, 1540. Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) was a leading figure of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. His importance for the Reformation lay in the fact that he systematised Martin Luther's ideas, defended them in public, and made them the basis of a religious education.

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