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melanchthon

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Me⋅lanch⋅thon

  [muh-langk-thuhn; Ger. mey-lahnkh-tawn]
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Phil⋅ipp  [fil-ip; Ger. fee-lip] , (Philipp Schwarzert), 1497–1560, German Protestant reformer.
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Me·lanch·thon   (mə-lāngk'thən, mā-länKH'tôn)   
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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