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