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Born January 13, 1505 • Germany
Died January 3, 1571 (aged 65) • Germany
House / Dynasty Hohenzollern dynasty

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Joachim II, detail from an oil painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger, c. 1570; in Monbijou Palace, Berlin
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Martin Buber
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Frederick William
elector of Brandenburg
Philip
Philip
landgrave of Hesse
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian
Martin Bucer, medal by Friedrich Hagenauer, 1543; in the Archives and Library of the City of Strasbourg.
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Protestant religious reformer
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian
Thomas Müntzer
Thomas Müntzer
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Troeltsch, Ernst
Ernst Troeltsch
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Adolf von Harnack
Adolf von Harnack
German theologian and church historian
Mendelssohn, Moses
Moses Mendelssohn
German-Jewish philosopher and scholar
Rudolf Bultmann
German theologian
George I
George I
king of Great Britain
Schwenckfeld, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1556; in the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
German theologian
Ferdinand Christian Baur
Ferdinand Christian Baur
German theologian
Sebastian Franck
German theologian
David Friedrich Strauss
German philosopher
Ulrich
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