05/11/2026
In addition to being one of the authors of the Formula of Concord, David Chytraeus was the most significant historian of the Reformation era. Soon, you'll be able to read some of his important essay on the importance of studying history—and the importance of the study of history to a theological education.
For many years, one of the great hidden treasures in my library has been a folio volume printed at Helmstedt in 1586: David Chytraeus’s Chronologia Historiae Herodoti et Thucydidis. I purchased it perhaps fifteen years ago, recognizing that it was important, but never fully grasping the scale of w...