LUTHER

Martin, the great reformer, was born in 148^. In 1501 he entered the University of Erfurt, and in 1505 received the degree of master. About this time he found a Latin Bible in the university library which contained more than the excerpts in common use, and this made him turn to the study of divinity, so he entered the monastery of the Aug us tines. In 1510 he visited Pope Leo X., and on his return was made Doctor of Theology in Wittenberg. The arrival there of John Tetzel in 1517 caused him to draw up his famous protest in ninety-five propositions, which he nailed to the church door. In 1520 a Papal bull of anathema was written against him, which he burnt publicly, and the following 3'ear he appeared at the Diet of Worms, before Charles V., to defend his writjpgs. He was kept in the castle of Wartburg for a year, when he translated the New Testament into German. In 1525 he laid aside his cowl and married Catharina von Bora, a nun who renounced her vows under his teaching. He completed his translation of the Bible in 1534, and died in 1546.