7
January 1590
Jakob Andreae died. Andreae introduced
Lutheranism to much of Germany.
9 January 1523
Martin Luther wrote in a letter: "It
is unchristian, even unnatural, to derive benefit
and protection from the community and not also
to share in the common burden and expense; to let
other people work but to harvest the fruit of their
labors."
11 January 1950
Walter A. Maier died.
Maier was the first host of the Lutheran Hour radio
program.
12 January 1839
The third ship carrying
Saxon immigrants, Republik, arrived in New Orleans.
13 January 1635
Philipp Jakob Spener was born.
Spener is considered the founder of Pietism, a
German Lutheran movement that wanted to turn the
focus of Lutheranism onto the personal religious
experience of the individual believer.
13 January
1501
The world's first hymnbook printed in the
vernacular of the people, containing 89 hymns in
the Czech language, was published in Prague for
the Hussites of Bohemia.
14 January 1839
Leaders
of the Saxon Immigration on board the ship Olbers
in the Gulf of Mexico signed Investiture document
naming Martin Stephan "Bishop".
16 January 1545
Georg Spalatin died. Spalatin
was a trusted advisor to Frederick the Wise, elector
of Saxony, and served as a liaison between Frederick
and his subject Martin Luther.