The Corpus Reformatorum ( Halle (Saale), 1834 sqq.), is the general Latin title given to a large collection of reformation writings founded by Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider^[1]and co-edited by Heinrich Ernst Bindseil. This collection, which runs to 101 volumes, contains reprints of the collected works of John Calvin, Philip Melanchthon, and Ulrich Zwingli, three of the most important protestant reformers. Halle (also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish from Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia) is the largest town in the German Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ... Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider (1776 - 1848), German scholar and theologian, was born at Gersdorf in Saxony. ... John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism. ... Melancthon, in a portrait engraved by Albrecht Dürer, 1526 Philipp Melanchthon (February 16, 1497 - April 19, 1560) was a German theologian and writer of the Protestant Reformation and an associate of Martin Luther. ... Zwinglis Successor Zwinglis successor, Heinrich Bullinger, was elected on December 9, 1531, to be the pastor of the Great Minster at Zürich, a position which he held to the end of his life (1575). ...

The Corpus Reformatorum online

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Series I: Works of Philip Melanchthon - Volumes 1-28

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Notes

1. ^ Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider - Schaff-Herzog

External links

• Concerning Bibliography, (xix) - The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
• Philip Melanchthon. Literature (Portrait) - History of the Christian Church, Vol. 7 - Philip Schaff
• Select Bibliography Of the Reformation (2.1.3.) - Westminster Seminary California