Inaba minori biography of martin luther

Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, a little town in Saxony, northern Germany. His parents were ordinary middle class people, but very religious. His father worked in the mines.

Inaba minori biography of martin luther

Martin attended grade school in Mansfeld, and went to high school in Magdeburg and Eisenach. At the age of 17 he entered the University of Erfurt, and graduated with his Master’s Degree four years later, in 1505.

His father wanted him to study law, but Martin was more interested in religion.

He therefore entered the Augustinian monastery at Erfurt in 1505, since he thought that being a monk was the best way to be sure of being saved. He was ordained as a priest in 1507. It was in the monastery that he found a Bible–the first Bible he had ever had a chance to read; and now he devoted all his spare time to studying the Scriptures.

In 1510 Martin was sent to Rome on monastery business.

While on this trip he saw how corrupt the church of his day had become, and how ignorant the people wer