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154: 25: 82: 93: 431: 253:. How he first became acquainted with Luther is unknown — probably at Wittenberg — but the reformer became his chief counselor in all moral and religious matters. His letters to Luther have been lost, but the answers remain. He read Luther's writings to the elector and translated for his benefit those in Latin into 291:
On the death of Frederick in 1525, Spalatin left the Saxon court but continued to attend the imperial diets and became an advisor to John and John Frederick. He went into the residence as a canon at Altenburg and incited the chapter to institute reforms, somewhat unsuccessfully. He married in the
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revenues, and he was asked to undertake the same work for Albertine Saxony. He was also a permanent visitor of Wittenberg University. Shortly before his death, he fell into a state of profound melancholy and died at Altenburg. He was buried in the vault of the St. Bartholomew church.
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and was welcomed by the German humanists of whom Mutianus was chief. His friend acquired a post for him as a teacher of novices in the monastery at
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and secretary and took charge of all the elector's private and public correspondence. His solid scholarship, and especially his unusual mastery of
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During the later portion of his life, from 1526 onwards, Spalatin was chiefly engaged in the visitation of churches and schools in the
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Spalatin speedily gained Frederick's confidence and was rewarded with a canon's stall in
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A list of Spalatin's works, published and unpublished, may be found in
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in 1502. There he lived in quarters on the Schlossplatz just east of
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Lucas Cranach the Elder

[ˈʃpaːlatiːn]
pseudonym
[ˈɡeːɔʁkˈbʊʁkhaʁt]
humanist
reformer
Frederick the Wise
Reformation

Schlosskirche, Wittenberg
Spalt
Latinized name
Nuremberg
University of Erfurt
Nikolaus Marschalk
University of Wittenberg
Schlosskirche, Wittenberg
Erfurt
jurisprudence
Conrad Mutianus
Georgenthal
priest
Martin Luther

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