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Gustav I Vasa
Gustav I Vasa
king of Sweden
Charles IX
Charles IX
king of Sweden
Christian III
Christian III
king of Denmark and Norway
Friis, detail from an oil painting by Jakob Binck, 1551
Johan Friis
Danish statesman
Frederick I
Frederick I
king of Denmark and Norway
Augustus
elector of Saxony
John
elector of Saxony
Gudbrandur Thorláksson
Icelandic bishop and scholar
Daniel Ernst Jablonski
German theologian
John Dury
Scottish theologian
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon
German theologian
Albrecht Ritschl
German theologian
Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
Feofan Prokopovich
Russian-Ukrainian theologian and writer
Matthias Flacius Illyricus
European religious reformer
Chemnitz, Martin
Martin Chemnitz
German theologian
Nikolaus von Amsdorf, lithograph, 1820, after a 16th-century engraving.
Nikolaus von Amsdorf
German theologian
Johann Gerhard
German theologian

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