Martin Luther
Martin Luther was a reformer who had a great impact on not only religion but also on politics, economics, education and language. Martin Luther was born in the town of Eisleben, Germany, on November 10, 1483, (Encarta 1). His father, Hans Luther, was a worker in the copper mines in Mansfield. His mother was Margaret. Martin grew up in a home where parents prayed faithfully to the saints and taught their children to do the same. His father and mother loved their children dearly, but were also very strict with them. Luther said, "my father once whipped me so that I ran away and felt ugly toward him until he was at pains to win me back. …My mother once beat me until the blood flowed, for having stolen a miserable nut" (Luther 31). When Martin was five years old, he went to school in Mansfeld, where his parents had moved about a year after he was born. The subjects taught at this school were the Ten Commandments, the Creeds, the Lord's Prayer, church music, together with some Latin and arithmetic (Catholic Encyclopedia 1). The sad part of the instruction was that Martin and his fellow pupils learned little about the love of God. They learned to know Jesus, not as the Friend of sinners, but as the Judge. They feared Jesus, but did not
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