. Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 . he work which had been interruptedby the war. He also continued to express thedeepest sympathy for his fallen Prince. In a letterof condolence and comfort he declared his willing-ness to serve under him in the humblest school-workin poverty rather than elsewhere in riches. He alsopromised that he would not depart from the Elect-ors dominions without his Graces he did not know at that time, June 9th, thatthe sons of John Frederick, to whom a portion oftheir fathers dominions, including Weimar, Jena,Eisenach, an
. Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 . he work which had been interruptedby the war. He also continued to express thedeepest sympathy for his fallen Prince. In a letterof condolence and comfort he declared his willing-ness to serve under him in the humblest school-workin poverty rather than elsewhere in riches. He alsopromised that he would not depart from the Elect-ors dominions without his Graces he did not know at that time, June 9th, thatthe sons of John Frederick, to whom a portion oftheir fathers dominions, including Weimar, Jena,Eisenach, and Gotha, had been left, intended toopen a university at Jena. His heart was still atWittenberg. June i6th he wrote to a friend: Though I do not approve all the confusion there,yet if I can gather together the scattered remnants of theUniversity, I would not go elsewhere. For I love thatUniversity as my native land, as in it I lived in themost intimate relations with learned and honourable col-leagues, and with a fair amount of zeal taught the things 1 C. R., 6: CHARLES V. IN 1547. FROM THE PAINTING BY TiTIAN IN THE PINACOTHEK AT MUNICH. 1547] The Schmalkald War 321 most necessary. The son of our captive Prince has only-requested that I should not leave these parts withoutfirst informing him of my intention. If a place shouldbe given me even in a humble school in his dominions,I would not hesitate to serve him; for I am not thinkingof a brilliant position, but of my grave. * When asked by the young dukes to name theplace where he wished to reside, he wrote that hewould come to Weimar to learn further their inten-tions, and to give his simple and humble the seventh of July he went to Weimar, but withthe determination not willingly to separate himselffrom his colleagues, and not to choose a position inwhich he could not again unite with them in labour;for in all his letters of these months he declares thathe will act only in conjunction with his lo
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