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.