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Melanchthon, Philipp, Greek surname for original name Schwatzerd ('Black Earth') 1497-1560
German Protestant reformer
Born in Bretten, in the Palatinate, he studied at Heidelberg (1509-11), then Tübingen (1512-14) universities. Appointed Professor of Greek at Wittenberg in 1516, he became Martin Luther's fellow-worker. The Augsburg Confession (1530) was composed by him. After Luther's death he succeeded to the leadership of the German Reformation movement but lost the confidence of some Protestants by concessions to the Catholics. His conditional consent to the introduction of the stringent Augsburg Interim (1549) in Saxony led to painful controversies. His Loci Communes (1521) is the first great Protestant work on dogmatic theology.
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