November 10, 1483
Eisleben, Germany
February 18, 1546
Eiselben, Germany
Scholar, professor, writer, religious reformer
"I began to understand." he wrote later, "that the righteousness of God is that gift of God by which a righteous [morally upright] man lives, namely, faith, and that … the merciful God justifies us by faith…"
Martin Luther.
The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were a time of transition from the Middle Ages (c. 400 –1400; also called the medieval period) to the modern era. Throughout the Middle Ages the Roman Catholic Church (a Christian religion headed by a pope and based in Rome, Italy) controlled...
Source: Renaissance and Reformation: Biographies, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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