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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...center of the Protestant Reformation when Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon taught there. In 1517, Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the Schlosskirche castle church, and in 1520 he burned the papal bull against him outside the Elster gate...