Identifier: philipmelanchth00rich (find matches)
Title: Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Richard, James William, 1843-1909
Subjects: Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560
Publisher: New York and London, G.P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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he work which had been interruptedby the war. He also continued to express thedeepest sympathy for his fallen Prince. In a letterof condolence and comfort he declared his willing-ness to serve under him in the humblest school-workin poverty rather than elsewhere in riches. He alsopromised that he would not depart from the Elect-ors dominions without his Graces knowledge.But he did not know at that time, June 9th, thatthe sons of John Frederick, to whom a portion oftheir fathers dominions, including Weimar, Jena,Eisenach, and Gotha, had been left, intended toopen a university at Jena. His heart was still atWittenberg. June i6th he wrote to a friend: Though I do not approve all the confusion there,yet if I can gather together the scattered remnants of theUniversity, I would not go elsewhere. For I love thatUniversity as my native land, as in it I lived in themost intimate relations with learned and honourable col-leagues, and with a fair amount of zeal taught the things 1 C. R., 6: 560.
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CHARLES V. IN 1547. FROM THE PAINTING BY TiTIAN IN THE PINACOTHEK AT MUNICH. 1547) The Schmalkald War 321 most necessary. The son of our captive Prince has only-requested that I should not leave these parts withoutfirst informing him of my intention. If a place shouldbe given me even in a humble school in his dominions,I would not hesitate to serve him; for I am not thinkingof a brilliant position, but of my grave. * When asked by the young dukes to name theplace where he wished to reside, he wrote that hewould come to Weimar to learn further their inten-tions, and to give his simple and humble opinion.On the seventh of July he went to Weimar, but withthe determination not willingly to separate himselffrom his colleagues, and not to choose a position inwhich he could not again unite with them in labour;for in all his letters of these months he declares thathe will act only in conjunction with his colleagues.July loth, in a written Opinion, which only recentlyhas been recovered, he set

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