Kristopher Hall
Mr. Mauldin
Honors World Literature 10
10 December 2015
Martin Luther: Cuts All Ties with Catholic Church
I. Introduction Whether you believe in a higher power or not, religion has impacted our lives in some way. Vice versa, people can make an impact on religions and transform them to what we know today. Take for example Martin Luther. He was a man looking to simply reform the Roman Catholic Church and its preaching’s because he disagreed with it. With his many ideas, strong will, and criticisms, he forever changed the world. Martin challenged and rebelled against The Catholic Church’s beliefs and with time, the church’s authority and power declined. Most of Luther’s success however comes from 3 main things; the writing of his 95 Thesis, translating the bible into vernacular German, and all leading up to the start of the Protestant Reformation.
II. Biography
Born in Eislenben in Saxony (now known as Germany) on November 10, 1483, Martin Luther was the first born son to Hans and Margaret Luther. Living in his home town for only a few months, his father moved the family to Mansfield to pursue a career in mining (Forster). As you can imagine, changing career fields was harsh for the Luther family. Constantly worried about their financial state Martin Luther remembers his childhood to be full of poverty (Manns 12). Hans wanting a better life for Martin, instead of sending him to work in the mines, set him to the Mansfield town school when he was just 6
Martin Luther was a man of great thought and constantly went against the feelings and views of other people of his time. Martin Luther was born on November 10th in 1483, in the Saxon town of Eisleben located in Germany. Martin was born of mother Margrethe, who many of his enemies thought of as being a whore and a bath attendant, yet Martin recalled her later on in life as someone who was hardworking and very able and willing to punish him if he had done wrong. Martin Luther grew up in the middle-class range and wasn't born into great wealth like many other great scholars of his time were like such as Girolamo Savonarola, who's family was rich before his birth around Luther’s time. Martin Luther’s father's name was Han's Luder, which later
Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Saxony which is located in Germany on November 10, 1483 (“Martin Luther- Biography”). Luther was born into humble living, with his parents were peasants. Luther’s dad was a miner and did not want his son to mine as well, so he sent Luther to school at the age of seven with hopes of him becoming a lawyer. Luther continued onto that path until he experienced a life-altering event. In 1505 Luther was caught in a thunderstorm and became so afraid he frantically prayed for mercy on his life. In his anguished prayer, he promised St. Anne (the patron Saint of miners) that he would become a monk if the storm subsided. The storm passed, and thus Luther’s journey began. Luther became a monk and spent several
Martin Luther affected the Catholic Church, which was the major religion in Europe at the time, with his deep-seated beliefs on indulgences and how you can find your own salvation without aid of the Catholic Church or the Pope. After Martin Luther was tried at the Diet of Worms, he was excommunicated; during this time of excommunication, he formed his own religion that brought about the Protestant Revolution. Martin Luther’s role in history is significant because: 1) the Catholic Church’s political and religious power was largely unquestioned up to this point; 2) the Catholic Church was always right because of its political and military power; and 3) the reason this man is so important is that Martin Luther is one of the few people who had the audacity to stand up against what he viewed as the corruption of the Catholic Church.
Martin Luther’s strict upbringing provoked his view of God as being a harsh judge and impelled him to depart from law school at Erfurt to become a monk. Luther was born on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben, Germany where his father Hans started out as a farmer and eventually reached moderate wealth by owning copper mines. Hans would have never been able to attain these copper mines without marrying Margarete (Lindeman) Ziegler who came from a fairly prosperous family. From an early age Luther was destined to become a lawyer and his parents were committed to see their son succeed in life. Luther obeyed his father’s desire for him to become a lawyer therefore he was sent to the most prestigious schools in the area. Luther started out going to Latin
Martin was born in Eisleben,November 10,1483.Martin's parents Margeretha Lindeman and Hans Luder were very strict parents,who only care about Martin best child.She send him to the best schools and would beat him until he bleed if he didn't get the best grades.When graduted from school,he decided to go to Erfurt University.Erfurt University water was very dirty,so they usually drank wine and beer.While he was at the University he became more into music and became more open to meeting new people.In 1505 the plague hit the university and he had to go back home.While he was on his way home thunderstorm and due to the thunderstorm he started to think more about life.He decided he want to become a monk and joined a group called Augustinians,which brought fury to his father.He had to shaved his head,wear a white robe, and he sang seven times a day.
They would say that the questions inspired by the knowledge that the world was round would only breathe life to a new round of questions as soon as a preceding inquiry was answered. His supporters would say he was the man who inspired the Renaissance man to question medieval assumptions. But in reality, Martin Luther was the leader that made people asks questions. Martin Luther became the leader of the reformation against the church the German people had been waiting for. He led his followers against the church and used himself as an example of what man could do if they tried. Luther showed everyone that it was possible to defy the church without anything happening to him. He burned papal bulls, ignored summons to Rome for an audience with the pope, and he even rejected the authority of the popes and cardinals by refusing to recant this works that spoke against the Catholic Church. Luther also took control of those who wished to rebel against the catholic church. He also created his own religion, Lutheranism, and invited all those who followed him to join him. This religion caused problems for the church. If someone didn’t agree with what the church said, they went and joined the Lutherans; because of this, the
Martin Luther was born on the 10th of November in 1483 in the small town of Eisleben, Germany. Today, he is a very famous figure in his hometown because of his major role in the Reformation, a movement to try and change the Roman Catholic Church’s ways. Martin had questioned many motives and practices of the church. He mainly had a problem with the church selling indulgences. Indulgences were when the church would tell God to forgive the
Luther came from a very abusive household and developed many social and emotional problems. He originally went to school to become a lawyer, but then decided to become a priest.
On November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Saxony (what is now Germany), Hans and Margarethe Luther welcomed a son. The following morning, the Luther 's baptized their newborn son. Traditionally Catholics of the period named their children after a saint. Thus, the child received the name Martin as November 11 is the feast day of St. Martin of Tours. The Luther family moved to Mansfield in 1484 and once Martin was old enough to attend a school he began his elementary schooling there. Once Luther completed this primary education he began his next level of instruction in Magdeburg, which is north of Eisleben, and finally, he attended grammar school in Eisenach itself. Luther 's father desired Martin to study law so that Martin would by guided into a
What effect did it have on the church? Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. His father was Hans Luder and his mother was Margarethe (nee Lindemann), Martin was then a Catholic . His father wanted him to be a lawyer, so at age 19 Martin entered the University of Erfurt. He graduated with a Master’s Degree in 1505.
Born in 1483 to a family of peasant origins (his father worked in a copper mine in the Mansfeld region), Martin Luther was admitted in 1505 to the Augustinian convent of Erfurt, where his intellectual qualities were quickly noticed. Ordained a priest two years later, he was appointed to teach philosophy. Later, he taught biblical theology at the University of Wittenberg, where he became a doctor of
Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben. shortly after Luther's birth, in 1484, Luther's family moved from Eisleben to Mansfeld to try to better the family's financial situation, by his father becoming a coal miner. His father was successful and already in 1491 the Luder's were one of the most respected families in Mansfeld. Luther's mother had many children to look after and was a disciplinarian. Martin Luther was educated at the cathedral school at Eisenach and at the University of Erfurt. In 1505, he completed his master's examination and began the study of law. He also became a monk of the Augustinian order in 1505.
Martin Luther was a Monk, Priest and Theologian born in late 1483 in the German town of Eisleben. His father owned a copper mine and had always wished for his son to go into civil service. When Luther was seventeen he arrived at the University of Erfurt. By 1502, Luther had already received his bachelor’s degree and by 1505 he had a Master’s degree. The same year, while returning to University, he was caught in a tremendous thunderstorm. A lightening bolt struck near him and terrified, he cried out, "Help, St. Anne! I'll become a monk!”. Luther lived, and keeping to his promise, he dropped out of university and entered the monastery.
Martin Luther was born at Eisleben in Saxony. Since his father was a miner, it was a great distress on him to send Martin to school and then to the University of Erfurt. There is where he earned his master's degree at the young age of twenty-one. (Erikson, 39) Although his father wished him to study law, Martin, after being terribly frightened in a thunderstorm, vowed to become a friar. In
Martin Luther was conceived into the religion of Roman Catholicism in the minute town of Eisleben, near modern day Berlin in Germany. His father was a miner that worked through all the jobs he needed to get done to make enough money and to ensure proper education for his son. Martin Luther seized a Master of Arts degree from the University of Erfurt when he was only a mere twenty one years old. His parents were middle-class peasant laborers that worked through tough conditions to make a living. Subsequent to Hans' vision for his son to become a lawyer, Martin started learning about law in 1505. One stormy