Person
Frederick the Wise
Elector of Saxony, who founded the University of Wittenberg and kept Luther safe at the Wartburg.
- Dates
- 1463 – 5 May 1525
- Also known as
- Frederick III of Saxony, Frederic the Wise
- Wikidata
- Q77233
- Life 1463 – 5 May 1525
- intervened in Luther at the Wartburg (the elector's castle, where he decided to keep Luther) 4 May 1521 – 1 Mar 1522
Frederick, Elector of Saxony, founded the University of Wittenberg in 1502. After The Diet of Worms he had Martin Luther hidden in the Wartburg.
Connections 3
founded
- University of Wittenberg 1502 Scholarship & press 1
intervened in
- Luther at the Wartburg 4 May 1521 – 1 Mar 1522 the elector's castle, where he decided to keep Luther Scholarship & press 2
involved in
- Luther at the Wartburg the elector, whose castle it was Scholarship & press 2
Timeline 3 dates
- 1463 – 5 May 1525 Frederick the Wise
- 1502 Frederick the Wise founded University of Wittenberg
- 4 May 1521 – 1 Mar 1522 Frederick the Wise intervened in Luther at the Wartburg
Proof 2 sources
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Luther's Correspondence and Other Contemporary Letters, volume I, 1507-1521 (the editors' notes), Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia (scan on the Internet Archive), 1913.
Scholarship & press
founded the University of Wittenberg 1502
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The Life and Letters of Martin Luther, by Preserved Smith, Houghton Mifflin, Boston (scan on the Internet Archive), 1911.
Scholarship & press
the castle in which the Elector had decided to keep him
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