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Also Known As Lutheran Church

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Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Gustav I Vasa
Gustav I Vasa
king of Sweden
Charles IX
Charles IX
king of Sweden
Christian III
Christian III
king of Denmark and Norway
Friis, detail from an oil painting by Jakob Binck, 1551
Johan Friis
Danish statesman
Frederick I
Frederick I
king of Denmark and Norway
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Augustus
elector of Saxony
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Gudbrandur Thorláksson
Icelandic bishop and scholar
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John
elector of Saxony
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John Dury
Scottish theologian
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Daniel Ernst Jablonski
German theologian
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon
German theologian
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Albrecht Ritschl
German theologian
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Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
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Feofan Prokopovich
Russian-Ukrainian theologian and writer
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Matthias Flacius Illyricus
European religious reformer
Chemnitz, Martin
Martin Chemnitz
German theologian
Nikolaus von Amsdorf, lithograph, 1820, after a 16th-century engraving.
Nikolaus von Amsdorf
German theologian
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Johann Gerhard
German theologian