Reformation: Facts & Related Content

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Facts

Date c. 1517 - c. 1600
Location Europe
Context AnabaptistCalvinismLutheranismpresbyterProtestantism

Did You Know?

  • The Reformation catalyzed the secularization of music and art.
  • The Reformation popularized the use of comic strips as a form of propaganda.

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Key People

Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII
king of England
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
John Knox, engraving from Icones, by T. Beza, 1580.
John Knox
Scottish religious leader
Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli
Swiss religious leader
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon
German theologian
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
English theologian
Martin Bucer, medal by Friedrich Hagenauer, 1543; in the Archives and Library of the City of Strasbourg.
Martin Bucer
Protestant religious reformer
Thomas Müntzer
Thomas Müntzer
German religious reformer
Menno Simons, engraving by Christopher van Sichem, 1605–08.
Menno Simons
Dutch priest
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell
English statesman
Gustav I Vasa
Gustav I Vasa
king of Sweden
John Napier
John Napier
Scottish mathematician
Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
Latimer, detail of a panel painting by an unknown artist, 1555; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh Latimer
English Protestant
Erastus, portrait by Tobias Stimmer, 1582; in the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switz.
Thomas Erastus
Swiss physician and theologian
Alexander Henderson
Alexander Henderson
Scottish minister
Schwenckfeld, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1556; in the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
German theologian
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian

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