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Phillipp Melanchthon, by Albrecht Dürer (1526).
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Statue of Huldrych Zwingli outside the Wasserkirche in Zurich, showing him with a Bible in one hand and a sword in the other.
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Woodcut from Luther’s Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil, by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1545), showing the execution of the pope and cardinals.
Reading of the Augsburg Confession at the Diet of Augsburg on June 25, 1530—the first time the Lutheran creed received an official hearing.
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Luther with other reformers (detail from a copy after Raising of Lazarus, by Lucas Cranach the Younger). Among them, strikingly, is Erasmus (fourth from the right). Also shown are George Spalatin (behind Luther’s right shoulder), Johannes Bugenhagen (behind his left shoulder), Justus Jonas (to Erasmus’s left), and Philipp Melanchthon (far right).
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The Reformation monument in Worms, showing Martin Luther on a pedestal and, seated below him, four forerunners: Peter Waldus, John Wyclif, Jan Hus, and Girolamo Savonarola. On the sides are statues representing Frederick the Wise, Augsburg, Johannes Reuchlin, Speyer, Philipp Melanchthon, Magdeburg, and Philip of Hesse. Erasmus is conspicuously absent.
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The Lutherhaus in Wittenberg, where Luther lived as a friar and which became his home after his marriage to Katharina von Bora; today it houses the world’s largest museum devoted to the Reformation.
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The Departure of Erasmus from Basel (in 1529), from The History of Protestantism, by James Aitken Wylie (1878).
The Departure of Erasmus from Basel illustration from The History of Protestantism by James Aitken Wylie (1808–1890), pub. 1878 (engraving), English School, (19th century)/The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Images
God as Creator, from Luther’s 1534 Bible, from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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The execution of William Tyndale at Vilvorde Castle in Belgium in 1536. Tyndale was persecuted by both Thomas More for his translation of the Bible into English and by Charles V for his Lutheran beliefs. (From John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, published in 1563.)
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A defaced image of Erasmus from a copy of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia Universalis (published in Basel in 1550)—a graphic example of the fierce campaign to expunge Erasmus’s legacy.
The logo of the Erasmus Program, which enables students in member countries of the European Union to study at universities in other member countries.
About the Author
MICHAEL MASSING is a former executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of The Fix, a critical study of the US war on drugs, and Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq. He is a cofounder of the Committee to Protect Journalists and sits on its board. He received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1992, he was named a MacArthur Fellow, and from 2010 to 2011, he was fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY. A native of Baltimore, he lives in New York City.
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