Melanchthon
PHILIP, (melangk'thon), a German reformer; born in Bretten, Baden, Feb. 16, 1497. His are iron, machinery, jute, and cigars. Here is the celebrated school of St. Afra, district of southern Asia, forming part of Persia and of Baluchistan; it is mostly MEKRAN (mek-rän'), a maritime arid and barren, but there are fertile tracts along the river valleys yielding ex- MELANESIA Melanchthon is intended to be the Greek equivalent. He studied at Heidelberg and Tübingen, and in 1518 was appointed Greek professor at Wittenberg, where he became the friend of Luther, and a convert to his doctrines. Luther was at that time Professor of Divinity there. In the following year he took part with Luther PHILIP MELANCHTHON in the disputation with Dr. Eck at Leipsic. The Augsburg Confession was .
The Augsburg Confession was drawn up by Melanchthon in 1530, and under the sanction of the Elector of Saxony, he aided in framing a code of ecclesiastical constitutions. He wrote numerous theological treaties, Latin poems, works on history, philosophy, etc., and died in Wittenberg, Germany, April 19, 1560.
MELANESIA (-nē'shiä), a group of islands stretching from the N. E. of New Guinea to the tropic of Capricorn, and including New Britain Archipelago (with the Admiralty Islands), Solomon Islands, Queen Charlotte or Santa Cruz Islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, and the Fiji Islands. a MELANITE (mel'an-it), a black variety of garnet; a lime-iron garnet in which the protoxides are almost wholly lime. Dana includes most of the black garnet in his group, andradite, but excludes that from Arendal, Norway, referring it to the magnesia-alumina garnet group, for which he adopts the name of pyrope.