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Luther von Braunschweig (also known as Lothar of Brunswick; c. 1275 – 18 April 1335) was a German nobleman who served as the 18th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1331 to 1335. Life. Luther was a younger son of the Welf duke Albert I of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1236–1279) and his second wife Adelaide (1242–1284/85), daughter of ...
On June 13, 1525 Luther married Katharina von Bora, a nun who had fled from a convent in Nimbsch, near Grimma, and had taken refuge in Wittenberg. Luther's marriage to Katharina (who was 16 years younger than Luther) was oppposed by many of his friends who saw in it the downfall of the Reformation. Philipp Melanchthon spoke of it as an "unlucky ...
Portraits of Martin Luther and His Wife, Katharina von Bora. Germany, 1525. Oil on panel. unframed: 7 5/8 x 12 3/8 inches (195 x 315 mm); framed: 13 1/4 x 18 inches (337 x 457 mm); left portrait: 4 1/16 inches (103 mm); right portrait: 4 inches (101 mm) Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
- Katharina's Youth & Medieval Convents
- Katharina's Escape
- Marriage
- Daily Life, Children, & Table Talk
- Conclusion
Katharina von Bora is thought to have been born on 29 January 1499, though her birth date is not recorded. Her parents were untitled lesser nobility, but who they were is debated. Based on different documentation, they were either Johan von Bora (also given as Jan von Bora) and his wife Margarete of Lippendorf or Hans von Bora and his wife Anna von...
After Luther's appearance at the Diet of Wormsin April 1521, where he defied papal authority and defended his works criticizing Church policy and practice, his popularity – and notoriety – grew. He was already a well-known figure prior to Worms, and the Church and civil authorities, recognizing him as a threat to the status quo, declared him an out...
After exhausting the option of returning the women to their former homes, Luther set about finding them husbands himself. Scholar Lyndal Roper observes: By 1525, Luther had found respectable matches or positions for all of the nuns except Katharina, who was first placed as a servant in the home of the clerk Philipp Reichenback and then of the artis...
Luther gave three reasons for his marriage: "to please his father, to spite the pope and the Devil, and to seal his witness before martyrdom" (Bainton, 295). At first, he gave no indication that he actually cared for Katharina herself, but soon after their marriage, he declared "I would not exchange Katie for France or for Venice, because God has g...
Luther died of a stroke on 18 February 1546, and Katharina, in a letter to her brother's wife, Christina von Bora, vented her grief over the loss, saying she could not eat or drink or sleep. Her loss was compounded by financial problems. Luther had left everything to her in his will but had not executed it properly, and she was denied her inheritan...
- Joshua J. Mark
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Dec 20, 2016 · Lutheran Spotlight: Katharina von Bora Luther. by Dr. Jack Kilcrease. Katharina von Bora is most famous for being the wife of Martin Luther. Traditionally, sources have suggested she was born in 1499. Nevertheless, because early modern Europe was lacking in birth certificates, there is no direct evidence of this.
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Oct 11, 2017 · Mary Helene Rasmussen Jackson has been researching and writing about Katharina von Bora’s life for more than 30 years. A four-part monologue about von Bora that Jackson continuously developed and took on the road provided the foundation for her book Daughter of the Reformation: A Historical Perspective of the Life and Times of the Wife of Martin Luther (Huff, 2015).
