Important people
Important people:
Nicholas von Amsdorf (1483–1565) Johann Pfeffinger (1493–1573) Johann Agricola (1494–1566) Andreas Osiander (1496–1552) Philip
Melanchthon (1497–1560) George Major (1502–74) Andreas Musculus (1514–81) Matthias Flacius (1520–75) Martin
Chemnitz (1522–86) Victorinus Strigel (1524–69) Caspar Peucer (1525–1602) Georg Cracow (1525–75) Jacob Andreae (1528–90) Nicholas Selnecker (1530–92) David Chytraeus (1530–1600) Daniel
Hoffmann (1538–1611) Augustus I of Saxony (1553–86) Cornelius Martini (1568–1621) Johann Gerhard (1582–1637) Jesper Rasmus Brochmand
(1585–1652) Georg Calixtus (1586–1656) Johann Conrad Dannhauer (1603–1666) Peter Heyling (born 1607/8, died some time after 1652)
Abraham Calov (1612–86) Johannes Andreas Quenstedt (1617–88) Valentin Ernst Löscher (1673–
1749)
The Thirty Years' War Johann Tserclaes of Tilly (1559–1632) Axel Oxenstierna (1583–1654) Christian IV of Denmark (1588–1648) Maximilian I of Bavaria (1597–1651) Frederick V of the Palatinate (1610–23) Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1611–32) Christian the Younger (1616–26) Emperor Ferdinand II (1619–37) Philip IV of Spain (1621–65)
Hymns and music Philipp Nicolai (1556–1608) Michael Praetorius (c.1571–1621 Johann Heermann (1585–1647) Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676) Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637–1707) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Pietism Johann Arndt (1553–1621) John Durie (1596–1680) Jean de Labadie (1610–74) Philip Jacob Spener (1635–1705) Christian Thomasius (1655–1728)
Joachim Justus Breithaupt (1658–1732) August Hermann Francke (1663– 1727) Gottfried Arnold (1666–1714) Henry Plütschau (1676–1747)
Bartholomew Ziegenbalg (1682–1719) Thomas von Westen (1682–1727) Hans Egede (1686–1758) Frederick III of Prussia (margrave 1688–1701; king 1701–13) Gerhard
Tersteegen (1697–1769) Benjamin Schultz (1689–1760) Frederick IV of Denmark (1699–1730) Paul Egede (1708–89)