There are very few men or women that it can be said with absolute certainty that they changed the course of history. Jesus was one; so was Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Still another was Martin Luther, known as the greatest of the Protestant reformers of the 16th century. Luther was born in Eisleben, a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, November 10, 1483. He was the son of a miner, Hans Luther, in humble circumstances; his mother, Margarethe Luther (Ziegler), was a woman of exemplary virtue, and esteemed in her walk of life.
Shortly after Luther's birth, his parents removed to Mansfield, a town in the Mansfelder Land district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany where their circumstances significantly improved by industry and perseverance. Their son was sent to school; and both at home and at school his training was of a rigorous and solidifying of integrity. When he reached the age of eighteenth, he entered the university at Erfurt, with a view of qualifying himself for the legal profession.......
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