Philip Melanchthon
Philip Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems. He stands next to Luther and John Calvin as a reformer, theologian, and molder of Protestantism. After Luther himself, he is the primary founder of Lutheranism.
Philip Melanchthon
Melanchthon exerted a wide influence in the department of homiletics, and has been regarded as the author, in the Protestant church, of the methodical style of preaching. He himself keeps entirely aloof from all mere dogmatizing or rhetoric in the "Annotationes in Evangelia" (1544), the "Conciones in Evangelium Matthaei" (1558), and in his German sermons prepared for George of Anhalt. He never preached from the pulpit; and his Latin sermons "(Postilla)" were prepared for the Hungarian students at Wittenberg who did not understand German. In this connection may be mentioned also his "Catechesis puerilis" (1532), a religious manual for younger students, and a German catechism (1549), following closely Luther's arrangement.