Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Philip Melanchthon
Born: February 16, 1497
Died: April 19, 1560 (aged 63)
Bio: Philip Melanchthon, born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems.
Known for:
- Augsburg Confession
- Loci Communes (1521)
- Apology of the Augsburg Confession
- Commentary on Romans