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Martin Luther
Martinus Lutherus la
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
- Child of Hans Luther and Margarethe Luther
- Married to Katharina von Bora
- Dated 10 November 1483 CE – 18 February 1546 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- from 18 October 1508 CE university teacher
Family
The family of Martin Luther
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 10
Family 10
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Hans Luther father of Martin Luther
- child of (mother) Margarethe Luther mother of Martin Luther
- parent of (child) Elisabeth Luther daughter of Martin Luther
- parent of (child) Johannes Luther son of Martin Luther (1526-1575)
- parent of (child) Magdalena Luther daughter of Martin Luther
- parent of (child) Margaretha Luther daughter of Martin Luther
- parent of (child) Martin Luther, Jr. German theologian, son of Martin Luther
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parent of (father) Paul Luther German physician, son of Martin Luther (1533-1593) - sibling of Jacob Luther son of Hans Luther
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married to Katharina von Bora wife of Martin Luther (1499-1552)
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
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Martin Luther German priest and theologian (1483–1546) Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
History
Recorded events
What Martin Luther’s own record names in its history, in the order of the dates on the statements.
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began. Each date is the one on the statement itself; an event with none is named after the line. It does not imply that these are all the events in its history, or that Wikidata ranks the events by importance.
- 1507 CE Sanctification ↗
Also recorded, with no date on the statement
Connections
How Martin Luther connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 4
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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was influenced by Augustine of Hippo Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430) -
influenced John Calvin French Protestant reformer (1509–1564) -
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influenced John Wesley founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791) -
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influenced Søren Kierkegaard Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
26 statements on this record
- 7 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 19 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 6 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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