Wittenberg
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a German town on the Elbe midway between Berlin and Leipsic. Wittenberg is noted chiefly in connection with Luther and Melanchthon whose statues adorn the marketplace and whose bodies lie buried beneath bronze slabs in the chief church of the city. The church doors to which Luther tacked his ninety-five theses were burned in 1760 and have been replaced by bronze doors bearing in raised type the original Latin text of the theses. The buildings of the old university, mentioned in Hamlet, the institution in which Luther and Melanchthon were professors, have been taken over for military barracks. See Luther
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a town in Prussia; province of Saxony; on the Elbe, 45 miles S. E. of Madgeburg. It was while Luther was a professor in Wittenberg that he nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Schlosskirche. The university in which he was professor was united to Halle in 1817. The principal buildings are the Schlosskirche, in which both Luther and Melanchthon are buried; the Stadtkirche, where Luther and Melanchthon preached; the remains of the Augustine monastery, with Luther's apartments; the houses of Melanchthon and Cranach; the town hall, the 3000 gymnasium, etc. Pop. about 25,000.
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