. Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 . 00 Traditional portrait. JOHN THE CONSTANT, ELECTOR OF SAXONY . 220 THE ELECTOR JOHN FREDERICK OF SAXONY . 230 After the copper engraving by G. Pencz, 1543. WITTENBERG IN 1546 ...... 254 DR. MARTIN BUCER 258 FACSIMILE OF CLOSING PORTION OF A LETTERFROM MELANCHTHON TO THE AUTHORITIESOF TANGERMUNDE, RECOMMENDING A STUDENTTO THEIR SUPPORT ..... 272 NICHOLAS AMSDORF 280 Illustrations XV PAGE CHARLES V. IN 1547 32O From the painting by Titian in the Pinacotliekat Municli. DUKE MORIIZ OF SAXONY ..... 324 Iloni a painting l)y Cian
. Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 . 00 Traditional portrait. JOHN THE CONSTANT, ELECTOR OF SAXONY . 220 THE ELECTOR JOHN FREDERICK OF SAXONY . 230 After the copper engraving by G. Pencz, 1543. WITTENBERG IN 1546 ...... 254 DR. MARTIN BUCER 258 FACSIMILE OF CLOSING PORTION OF A LETTERFROM MELANCHTHON TO THE AUTHORITIESOF TANGERMUNDE, RECOMMENDING A STUDENTTO THEIR SUPPORT ..... 272 NICHOLAS AMSDORF 280 Illustrations XV PAGE CHARLES V. IN 1547 32O From the painting by Titian in the Pinacotliekat Municli. DUKE MORIIZ OF SAXONY ..... 324 Iloni a painting l)y Cianach, the Younger. CONTKMPOKAKV CARICATURE ON THE INTERIM . 332 JOACHIM CAMERARIUS ...... 336 From a contemporary co[)per-plate. MATTHIAS FLACIUS 350 After a contemporary engraving. STATUE OF MELANCIITIION 360 In tlie Castle Cluirch in \Vitteiil)erg. PIIILIl MELANCHTIION, /ET. 61 . . 370 From a wood-cnt after Lucas Cranach in tlie LutlierHall at Wittenberg. TITLE-PAGE OF M EL AN CH THONs FUNERAL ORATION (^N LUTHER, 1546 ...... 382 melanchthons coat-of-arms .... 392. COAT-OF-ARIVIS OF SCHWARTZERD(MELANCHTHONS FATHER). PHILIP MELANCHTHON CHAPTER I BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS Bretten—Claus Schwartzerd—His Sons—Philip Schwartzerd Born—His Brother and Sisters—His First School—John Unger—Deathof Philips Father and Grandfather—Reuchlin—Pforzheim—Studies Greek—Name Changed. NEAR Carlsruhe, the capital of Baden, in thebeautiful valley of the Kraichgau, is the littlecity of Bretten, with five thousand hundred years ago it belonged to the Palat-inate, and numbered three hundred families as thesum total of its population. For a town so small itenjoyed much intercourse with the outside world,since through its principal street passed a large partof the merchandise carried from Italy to the lowerRhine. But the inhabitants of the town livedmostly from the produce of their fertile fields. Theywere simple in their manners, upright in their lives,and warmly
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