Philipp Melanchthon - Reformator wider Willen

Philipp Melanchthon - Reformator wider Willen

1997 · 60 min · Documentary

Philipp Melanchthon decisively shaped the history of the Reformation in Germany and renewed German education. In the shadow of his fatherly friend Martin Luther, he tirelessly tried to reconcile Reformation and humanism, Protestantism and Catholicism.

Directed by Dagmar Wittmers · Written by Dagmar Wittmers

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