Felipe melanchthon biography

On February 16, , German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther,[1] the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, and intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation Philipp Melanchton was born.

Melanchthon along with Luther denounced what they believed was the exaggerated cult of the saints, asserted justification by faith, and denounced what they considered to be the coercion of the conscience in the sacrament of penance (confession and absolution), which they believed could not offer certainty of salvation.

Philipp Melanchton &#; Early Years

Philipp Melanchton was born in Bretten, Electoral Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire, as the eldest son in a wealthy middle-class family.

His father Georg Schwarzerdt was armorer to Philip, Count Palatine of the Rhine, who is said to have drunk from a poisoned well in Monheim in during the Bavarian-Palatinate War, from which after a long illness he di