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Largest city in Saxony, Germany
Stark Catholic resistance to Martin Luther in the 1520s coalesced around a small set of who marshaled biblical, patristic, scholastic, and institutional arguments to reject Luther’s teaching on justif...
Communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989 after a cascade of mass protests, negotiated transfers of power, and political openings that began in Poland and spread across the region; key pro...
Johann Eck’s attacks on Martin Luther in 1520–1521 centered on defending , while portraying Luther’s positions as tantamount to Hussite heresy; Eck combined scholastic argument, patristic citations, a...
In 1939 the world’s largest concentrations of Jews were in Eastern Europe — Poland (~3,000,000), the European Soviet Union (~2,525,000) and Romania (~980,000) — while major city centers included Warsa...
was born in in 1850 and is repeatedly identified in the available sources as the son of and . The reporting consulted names and basic biographical facts but does not supply verified information about ...
who became one of the first systematic publishers of literature on homosexuality and an early public ally to the nascent LGBT emancipation movement . He helped found the with and posthumous honors hav...