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Martin Luther: A Biography Of Martin Luther (1483- 1546)

Martin Luther: A Biography of Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany, the son of Hans Luther, who
worked in the copper mines, and his wife Margarethe. He went to school at
Magdeburg and Eisenach, and entered the University of Erfurt in 1501,
graduating with a BA in 1502 and an MA in 1505. His father wished him to
be a lawyer, but Luther was drawn to the study of the scriptures, and
spent three years in the Augustinian monastery at Erfurt. In 1507 he was
ordained a priest, and went to the University of Wittenberg, where he
lectured on philosophy and the Scriptures, becoming a powerful and
influential preacher.

On a mission to Rome in 1510--11 he was appalled by the ...

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list of 95 theses on indulgences denying the pope any right to forgive
sins, and nailed them on the church door at Wittenberg. Tetzel retreated
from Saxony to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, where he published a set of counter-
theses and burnt Luther's. The Wittenberg students retaliated by burning
Tetzel's, and in 1518 Luther was joined in his views by Melanchthon.

The pope, Leo X, at first took little notice of this disturbance,
but in 1518 summoned Luther to Rome to answer for his theses. His
university and the elector interfered, and ineffective negotiations were
undertaken by Cardinal Cajetan and by Miltitz, envoy of the pope to the
Saxon court. The scholar Johann Eck and Luther held a memorable
disputation at Leipzig (1519); and Luther began to attack the papal system
more boldly. In 1520 he published his famous address An den christlichen
Adel deutscher Nation (Address to the Christian Nobility of the German
Nation), followed by a treatise De captivitate Babylonica ...

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Added: 7/8/2007 05:49:30 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Free Paper
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