
Family tree of Martin LUTHER
Theologian
Born Martin LUTHER
German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation
Born on November 1, 1483 in Eisleben, Deutschland
Died on February 8, 1546 in Eisleben, Deutschland
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He had several brothers and sisters, and is known to have been close to one of them, Jacob. Hans Luther was ambitious for himself and his family, and he was determined to see Martin, his eldest son, become a lawyer. He sent Martin to Latin schools in Mansfeld, then Magdeburg in 1497, where he attended a school operated by a lay group called the Brethren of the Common Life, and Eisenach in 1498. The three schools focused on the so-called "trivium": grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Luther later compared his education there to purgatory and hell.
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