Martin Luther single handedly started the Reformation and lead a new start for people everywhere. He is still considered one of the most influential person today, even after so many years. Because of him more people got an education and stood up for what they believed in. Even when he was young he realized that the church was wrong. His ideals greatly differed from those of the church so he broke away and started his own religion. Because of the differences he ended up changing religion and the development of the world. Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Saxony into a peasant lineage. Only one year after Martin was born the family moved to Mansfeld for his father’s job and to get Martin a better education so he could become a lawyer.
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Martin Luther publicly burned the letter that December. The month following he was officially excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. In March he was summoned to go to the Diet of Worms, and he refused to recant his statements again unless they found proof that he was wrong in the scriptures. May 8, 1521 the council released the Edict of Worms which declared him a convicted heretic and banning his writings. His friends helped hide him for over a year, and while he was in hiding he translated the New Testament into the German language giving the common people to read and interpret it on their own. May of 1522 he avoided capture and went back to Wittenberg Castle Church where he began to organize a new church: Lutheranism. When he was older he married Katharina von Bora(a former nun who had abandoned the covenant due to Luther's writings) and had five children; Johannes, Magdlene, Martin, Paul and Margarete. From 1533 to his death in 1546 he served as the dean of theology at the University of Wittenberg. He suffered from arthritis, heart problems and many digestive disorders. During a trip to his hometown of Eisleben he died February 18 at the age of
Martin Luther publicly burned the letter that December. The month following he was officially excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. In March he was summoned to go to the Diet of Worms, and he refused to recant his statements again unless they found proof that he was wrong in the scriptures. May 8, 1521 the council released the Edict of Worms which declared him a convicted heretic and banning his writings. His friends helped hide him for over a year, and while he was in hiding he translated the New Testament into the German language giving the common people to read and interpret it on their own. May of 1522 he avoided capture and went back to Wittenberg Castle Church where he began to organize a new church: Lutheranism. When he was older he married Katharina von Bora(a former nun who had abandoned the covenant due to Luther's writings) and had five children; Johannes, Magdlene, Martin, Paul and Margarete. From 1533 to his death in 1546 he served as the dean of theology at the University of Wittenberg. He suffered from arthritis, heart problems and many digestive disorders. During a trip to his hometown of Eisleben he died February 18 at the age of