German Reformer
In
1518 Melanchthon became a professor of Greek at Wittenberg, where he
influenced and was influenced by Martin Luther. In 1521, Melanchthon
found himself at the head of the Reformation Movement while Luther
was confined in the Wartburg. He sided firmly with Luther firmly against
the Zwinglians in the controversy on Eucharistic doctrine in 1525-36.
Melanchthon was the chief architect of the Augsburg Confession (1530). Subsequently, however, he went to great lengths to unite the Reformed and Roman Catholic churches.
Melanchthon,
Philipp, 1497-1560
Corpus
doctrinae Christianae, quae est summa orthodoxi et Catholoci dogmatis
Lipsiae
(Leipzig): Rhamba, 1572
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