Produced by David E. Brown, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) TRANSCRIBER's NOTES: Text in italics is surrounded with underscores: _italics_. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected without note; however, irregularities with quotation marks have been retained from the original. Pages 56-60 were printed out of order as described in the "Notice" after page 2. These pages have been put into the correct order in this eText. [Illustration: MELANCHTHON.] THE LIFE OF PHILIP MELANCHTHON. BY CHARLES FREDERICK LEDDERHOSE. Translated from the German, BY THE REV. G. F. KROTEL, PASTOR OF TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH, LANCASTER, PA. PHILADELPHIA: LINDSAY & BLAKISTON. 1855. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. NOTICE. By an oversight on the part of the pressman whose duty it is to revise the sheets on the press in my Printing Office, the following pages of this work (The Life of Melanchthon), are transposed, 56, 57, 58, 59, and 60. This error makes the book appear at first sight to be incomplete, the reader, however, will find all the pages, as above, but transposed. The error was not discovered until the whole edition of the work was bound, and largely distributed, consequently too late to be corrected in any other way than by this notice. C. SHERMAN, Printer, for LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, Publishers. PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 30, 1854. AUTHOR'S PREFACE.