Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/April/April 17


 * 1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
 * 1574 - Death of classical scholar Joachim Camerarius
 * 1794 - Birth of botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
 * 1870 - Birth of architect Max Berg, who built the Hala Ludowa in Wrocław
 * 1899 - Death of mathematician Wilhelm Jordan