Book Title: Prosopographiae heroum atque illustrium uirorum totius Germaniae, pars prima[-tertia] : In hac personarum descriptione omnium tam armis et autoritate, quàm literis & religione totius Germaniae celebrium uirorum uitae & res præclarè gestae bona fide referuntur, à condito mundo, adeo*q[ue] prima linguarum confusione, ad Caroli Magni primi Germanorum Imperatoris tempora, atque annum post Christi Natiuitatem octingentesimum usq[ue]: opus plane nouum et iucundissimum, ex omnium fere gentium chronicis, annalibus, & historijs magna diligentia excerptum: & uiuis heroum imaginibus (quantum fieri potuit) passim illustratum: ac nunc primum ob patriæ decorem in lucem editum. Ita quod instar continuae historiae Germanorum esse queat / Authore Henrico Pantaleone.

Author: Pantaleon, Heinricus, 1522-1595

Image Title: Portrait of Martin Luther

Description: An image of Martin Luther (1483-1546), a German priest, pastor, theologian, and reformer. The image is from Heinrich Pantaleone’s (1522-1595) 1565 collection of over 1500 woodcut portraits and biographies of prominent Germans. Pantaleone was a professor at the University of Basel. The verbiage is part of his biography of Luther .

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