Me·lanch·thon (mə-lăngkthən, mā-läntôn), Philipp Originally Philipp Schwarzerd. 1497-1560.
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Tweet German theologian and a leader of the German Reformation. A friend of Martin Luther, he wrote Loci Communes (1521), the first extensive treatise on Protestant doctrine. |
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