Christof mascher biography of martin luther

The German reformer one who works to change outdated practices and beliefs Martin Luther was the first and greatest figure in the sixteenth-century Reformation. An author of commentaries on Scripture sacred writings , theology the study of religion , and priestly abuses, a hymnologist writer of hymns [sacred songs] , and a preacher, from his own time to the present he has been a symbol of Protestantism group of Christian faiths that do not believe in the supremacy of the pope, but in the absolute authority of the Bible.

Luther's parents were peasants, but his father had worked hard to raise the family's status, first as a miner and later as the owner of several small mines, to become a small-scale businessman. In Martin was sent to the Latin school at Mansfeld, in to Magdeburg, and in to Eisenach. His early education was typical of late-fifteenth-century practice.

To a young man in Martin's situation, the law and the church offered the only chance for a successful career.

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He chose to become a lawyer to increase the Luther family's success, which Hans had begun. Martin was enrolled at the University of Erfurt in He received a bachelor of arts degree in and a master of arts in In the same year he enrolled in the instructors of law, giving every sign of being a dutiful and, likely, a very successful, son.

Between and , however, Martin experienced a religious crisis that would take him from the study of law forever.