Protestant Reformer, Martin Luther

Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483, at Eisleben in Thuringian Saxony, Germany. His parents were Hans and Margerethe Luther. They moved to Mansfeld after Luther's birth where Hans Luther worked in the copper mines. Luther's childhood was full of memories of discipline and gloominess. His influence extends beyond religion to politics, economics, educations and language
Luther's reason for entering religion as a career is not known. In his book Tischreden, which is translated as "Table Talk," he said that on July 2, 1505, he was returning from a visit to his parents when he was overtaken by a thunderstorm near the village of Stooerheim and cried out in terror, "Help, St. Anne, and I'll become a monk."1 In his De Votis Monasticis Luther says "not freely or deliriously did I become a monk, but walled around with the terror and agony of sudden death, I vowed a constrained and necessary vow."2 On July 17, 1505, he entered the monastery at Erfurt. Luther made his profession a...