Philip Melanchthon

Philip Melanchthon was a German Lutheran reformer, Martin Luther's collaborator and the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation. A scholar of Greek and a Christian humanist, he became professor of Greek at Wittenberg in 1518, and his Loci communes of 1521 was the first systematic account of its teaching. He was the main author of the Augsburg Confession, presented at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, and through his grammars, textbooks and work in education he became the founder of the learned schools of Protestant Germany.