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Martin Luther "Martin Luther" Early Life Martin Luther who was a German priest and scholar was born into a comparatively rich family on November 10,1483. Within weeks of Luther's birth, his father Hans descended into the copper mines. A lifetime of the hard work, lessening, watchfulness and self-improvement that would hallmark the Protestant ethic prepared of Hans Luther a propertied capitalist. At first, leasing a small smelting furnace, he would finally own two foundries absolute and acquire rights to half a dozen mining shaft. A hard and intolerant man, Hans had Martin's life neatly shaped for him from the beginning. Seven-year-old Martin was sent to study at the local Latin school. At thirteen, he started his studies with the lay Brethren of the Common Life and it was in general certainly here that he engrossed the central doctrine of all his subsequent teachings informality and faithfulness. A gifted student Luther matriculated, and moved on to acquire a master's degree at age 21. His father Hans Luther was a copper miner at Mansfield. Luther started his schooling in 1497, in Magdeburg, run by the Brethren of Common Life. In 1501 he went to university of Erfurt for his bachelors. Luther received his bachelor’s degree luther, theses, through, law, church, papal, life, indulgences, human, hans, 95, sin, part, often, martin, involved, hard, gospel, god, degree, christian, beings, world, wittenberg, two, time, thoughts, though, started, repentance, reformer, purpose, purgatory, protestant, priest