Chronicon Carionis Latine expositum et auctum multis & ueteribus & recentibus Historijs,.in Descriptionibus Regnorum et Gentium Antiquarum, et Narrationibus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum et Politicarum, Grecarum, Romanarum, Germnicarum et Aliarum

Reliure de l' poque, infolio, (30) 746 pages, index (56). Portrait (1pp) + planche depliantes. Latin Text. Chronicon Carionis Latine expositum et auctum multis & ueteribus & recentibus Historijs,.in Descriptionibus Regnorum et Gentium Antiquarum, et Narrationibus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum et Politicarum, Grecarum, Romanarum, Germnicarum et Aliarum ---- Melanchthon was born "Phillip Schwarzerdt," child of Georg and Barbara Schwarzerdt. In his day, it was common among scholars to Latinize or Greekize a name. "Schwarze Erde" (black earth) became in Greek: "Melan chthon." Melanchthon was a classicist and theologian and played a role in the Reformation, alongside people like Luther and Calvin. He was an educator at heart and one of the founders of modern education in Europe. He founded schools, designed curricula and training, and renewed education in Germany in numerous ways. He built a strongly humanist-oriented school system in the Lutheran world. Because of this fact, he was also called "the Educator of Germany"(Praeceptor Germaniae). The Groningen chronicler Abel Eppens was a student of Melanchthon. In 1530, he drafted the 28 points of the Confessio Augustana, which became the creed of all Lutherans in Germany. It was imposed by the Lutheran princes on their subjects, so that after the religious peace of Augsburg in 1555, one can speak of a single German Lutheran community. Two museums are dedicated to Melanchthon, namely the Melanchthon House, his residence in Wittenberg, and the Melanchthon House in his birthplace of Bretten. Because of his great influence on the school system and his ideas on education, several schools have been named after him.