He considered the incident a sign from God and vowed to become a monk if he survived the storm. In July of that year, Luther got caught in a violent thunderstorm, in which a bolt of lightning nearly struck him down. There, he studied the typical curriculum of the day: arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and philosophy and he attained a Master’s degree from the school in 1505. Then, in 1501, Luther enrolled at the University of Erfurt, the premiere university in Germany at the time. Martin Luther Enters the Monasteryīut Hans Luther had other plans for young Martin-he wanted him to become a lawyer-so he withdrew him from the school in Magdeburg and sent him to new school in Eisenach. That cannot be confirmed, but in 2004 archeologists discovered Luther's lavatory, which was remarkably modern for its day, featuring a heated-floor system and a primitive drain. The Brethren’s teachings focused on personal piety, and while there Luther developed an early interest in monastic life.ĭid you know? Legend says Martin Luther was inspired to launch the Protestant Reformation while seated comfortably on the chamber pot. At 13, Luther began to attend a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life in Magdeburg. At age five, Luther began his education at a local school where he learned reading, writing and Latin. Luther’s father was a prosperous businessman, and when Luther was young, his father moved the family of 10 to Mansfeld. Martin Luther (1483–1546) was born in Eisleben, Saxony (now Germany), part of the Holy Roman Empire, to parents Hans and Margaretta. His writings changed the course of religious and cultural history in the West.
The Catholic Church was ever after divided, and the Protestantism that soon emerged was shaped by Luther’s ideas. Although these ideas had been advanced before, Martin Luther codified them at a moment in history ripe for religious reformation. His “95 Theses,” which propounded two central beliefs-that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds-was to spark the Protestant Reformation. But in 1517 Luther penned a document attacking the Catholic Church’s corrupt practice of selling “indulgences” to absolve sin. Luther spent his early years in relative anonymity as a monk and scholar.
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