Holy Roman Empire

Martin Luther

Religion

Protestantism

1906–1985

"Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew."

Thomas Müntzer

Literature

Protestant Reformation

1490–1525

"Thomas Müntzer will not pray to a dumb God, but rather to ones who speaks."

Walther von der Vogelweide

Literature

1170–1230

"He has no equal in medieval German lyric poetry and perhaps not even in European lyric poetry of the Middle Ages."

Hermann Samuel Reimarus

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1694–1768

"It was then clearly not the intention or the object of Jesus to suffer and to die, but to build up a worldly kingdom, and to deliver the Israelites from bondage."

Charles V

Politics

1500–1558

": "A man who knows four languages is worth four men."

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Literature

1170–1220

"By common consent, Wolfram is the greatest medieval poet before Dante."

Nicholas of Cusa

Mathematics

Humanism

1401–1464

"I behold Thee, 0 Lord my God, in a kind of mental trance"

"To be crushed in the winepress of passion."

Jacques de Molay

Religion

"Web-Page showing photos of location of GM Jacques de Molay's Burning at the Stake"

Klemens von Metternich

Politics

1773–1859

"Italy is only a geographical expression."

Jan Hus

Religion

1370–1415

"The only law that a Christian should listen to and read is the law of God's Commandments. And it is not right to comply with, implement or observe any other law."

Alessandro Manzoni

Literature

Romanticism in Italy

1785–1873

"De moribus doctrinam non ad se tantummodo, sed ad se totam pertinere asseverat Ecclesia."

Paul Gerhardt

Literature

1607–1676

"Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs, trans. J. Kelly, 80 pages, 1867."

Joseph Haydn

Music

Classicism

1732–1809

"Give Him thanks, all ye His works so wondrous! Sing His honor, sing His glory, bless and magnify His Name! Jehovah’s praise endures forevermore, Amen, Amen!."