Organization
University of Wittenberg
University in Saxony founded by Elector Frederick the Wise in 1502, where Luther taught theology.
- Dates
- 1502
- Wikidata
- Q316592
The University of Wittenberg was founded by Frederick the Wise in 1502. Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt taught there.
Connections 5
founded by
- Frederick the Wise 1502 Scholarship & press 1
people who worked here
- Philip Melanchthon 1518 professor of Greek Scholarship & press 2
- Andreas Karlstadt Primary record 3
- Martin Luther lecturer in theology Primary record 4
located in
- Wittenberg Scholarship & press 1
Timeline 3 dates
- 1502 University of Wittenberg
- 1502 Frederick the Wise founded University of Wittenberg
- 1518 Philip Melanchthon worked at University of Wittenberg
Proof 4 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
When called in this year to teach Greek at the University of Wittenberg, Melanchthon was not yet twenty-one.
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Luther's Correspondence and Other Contemporary Letters, volume I, 1507-1521, translated by Preserved Smith and Charles M. Jacobs (the letters), Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia (scan on the Internet Archive), 1913.
Primary record
fell into a dispute with Dr. Carlstadt, of Wittenberg
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Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (the Ninety-five Theses), 31 October 1517, English translation of 1915, Project Gutenberg (from Works of Martin Luther, vol. 1, Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Company, 1915), 31 Oct 1517.
Primary record
Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in Ordinary on the same at that place
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