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Born March 2, 1481 • Germany
Died May 7, 1523 (aged 42) • Germany
Role In Reformation

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Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
Georg Spalatin
Bavarian humanist
Nikolaus von Amsdorf, lithograph, 1820, after a 16th-century engraving.
Nikolaus von Amsdorf
German theologian
Thomas Müntzer
Thomas Müntzer
German religious reformer
Johannes Janssen
German historian
Augustus
elector of Saxony
John
elector of Saxony
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
August Thyssen
German industrialist
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Frederick II
Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor
Frederick I during the Crusades
Frederick I
Holy Roman emperor
Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann
chancellor of Germany
Henry IV
Henry IV
Holy Roman emperor
“Queen of Europe”
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany
Louis IV
Holy Roman emperor
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist