· Year: 1730
· Weight: 14.55 g
· Size: 32mm
· Obverse Description: Conjoined busts of Martin Luther and Philipp Malanchthon right.
· Obverse Legend: D. MARTIN . LVTHER .
PHILIPP . MFLANCHTHON
· Translation: (Dr Martin Luther and Phillip Malanchthon)
· Reverse Description: Christ enthroned in clouds
· Reverse Legend: WER MICH BEKENNEI DEN WILL ICH AVCHBEKENEN
· Reverse Translation: (Whoever confesses me, I will also confess that person.)
· Reverse Exergue: AVG . CONF EXHIB MEM SEC 1730
· Exergue Translation: (Ausburg Confession Memory Second Adversary 1730) or
(second anniversary of the surrender of
the Augsburg Confession)
· Signature: D (DOCKLER. DANIEL SIEGMUND)
· Catalog reference: Slg. Whiting 417, ed. Erl. II, 2489 ss - vz
1730 High Grade Silver medal stuck for the Bicentenary of the Naumburg
Convention
Background
The start
of the Reformation
The sale of indulgences shown in A Question to a Mintmaker, woodcut by Jörg Breu the Elder of Augsburg, ca. 1530
Luther Before the Diet of
Worms" by Anton von Werner (1843–1915)
“As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from
purgatory [also attested as 'into heaven'] springs”
Luther objected to this saying
attributed to Johann Tetzel, a Dominican
friar and papal commissioner for indulgences,
was sent to Germany by the Roman Catholic Church who in 1516 to sell
indulgences to raise money to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Roman
Catholic theology stated that faith alone, whether fiduciary or dogmatic,
cannot justify man; justification rather depends only on such faith as is
active in charity and good works (fides caritate formata). The benefits of good works could be obtained by donating money to the church.
This lead to Luther penning what
became known as The Ninety-Five Theses which he handed
to his bishop on 31 October 1517 and several years of debate and confrontation
with the Papacy and Luther’s ultimate excommunicated by Pope Leo X on 3 January
1521,
The Edict of Worms was a decree
issued on 25 May 1521 by Emperor Charles V, declaring Luther
to be an obstinate heretic and banned the reading or possession of his
writings.
However with Charles being so preoccupied with political and military
concerns elsewhere and rising public support for Luther among the German people
and protection of certain German princes in particular Prince Frederick III, Elector of Saxony,
the Edict of Worms was never enforced in Germany.
Thus this allowed Luther to return to
public life and became instrumental in disrupting the religious strength of the
papacy and laying the groundwork for the Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther, (November 10, 1483 in Eisleben, Germany - February 18, 1546 in Eisleben) was a German monk, reformer and theologian. He became a priest in the order of the Augustinian hermits
who gave him a thorough Catholic education, which led him to become a professor
at the University of Wittenberg.
In his 30s, he developed his own theological views on the authority of the church, the sacraments and on man and its relationship with God. He distanced himself from the church indulgence.
It gave rise to the Reformation and the Evangelical Lutheran churches. The Reformation began on October 31, 1517, with his theses against indulgences. It was not really a landmark theological
breach, but a few years later they led to an irrevocable breach.
In 1521, Luther became outlawed and sought refuge with the benevolent and powerful prince of the castle of Wartburg. Problems with the razor of churches caused him to return to Wittenberg.
His movement suffered setbacks in the context of the German peasant war and knew that it was divided by conflicting theological views, especially in the view of the Holy Spirit and the sacraments.
Luther's translation of the Bible became of great importance to the German language. His hymnal song with Our God he is so firmly a castle inspired a flowering of Christian congregation singing,
where now no longer should be sung in Latin but in the native language. His marriage to former nun Katharina von Bora gave the priesthood legitimacy within several Christian traditions. Luther's reformation disrupted ecclesiastical unity in Western Europe and Northern Europe, and also had major and lasting political and cultural changes.
Philipp Melanchthon was one of the most influential theologians of the Reformation of the 16th century. He was responsible for transforming the secondary and tertiary educational systems in Germany. He was responsible for a new theological curriculum. He wrote the first Protestant 'systematic theology' and was the author of the Confessio Augustana. He is called the 'teacher of Germany and Europe'.
“God has always preserved a proportion of His servants upon the earth, and now, through Martin Luther, a more splendid period of light and truth has appeared.” (On the death of Luther, 1)
“If it please Christ, Melanchthon will make many Martins and a most powerful enemy of scholastic theology; for he knows their folly and the Rock of Christ as well. As a man of might, he will prove his ability.” (What Luther Says, 919)
Medalist
DOCKLER. DANIEL SIEGMUND (1696-1753)
DANIEL SIEGMUND DOCKLER was the son of same named father both Nuremberg Medallists during the end of the seventeenth century and beginning of the eighteenth century. He died after 1730, as coins exist of that year, engraved by him, commemorating the centenary of the Augsburg Confession. There is a coronation medal Of Charles VI, 1711, by him, and a commemorative piece of the canonization of Johann Nepolnuk-, 1729-1736, The former is signed S. D.S.
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