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Martin Luther: Amore et studio elucidande veritatis

Author



Description	translator, theologian, professor, friar, lawyer and Bible translator
Date of birth/death	10 November 1483	18 February 1546
Location of birth/death	Lutherstadt Eisleben	Lutherstadt Eisleben
Work location	St. Augustine's Monastery (Erfurt)
Authority file	: Q9554 VIAF: 14773105 ISNI: 0000000121214073 ORCID: 0000-0003-3977-4305 ULAN: 500321766 LCCN: n79089628 WorldCat

Title

Amore et studio elucidande veritatis

Subtitle

hec subscripta disputabu[n]tur Wittenberge. Presidente R.P. Martino Lutther: Artiu[m] et S. Theologie Magistro: eiusdemq[ue] ibidem lectore Ordinario. Quare petit: vt qui non possunt verbis presentes nobiscu[m] disceptare: agant id literis absentes. In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni nostri hiesu chr[ist]i. Ame[n]

Publisher

Hieronymus Höltzel

Description

Martin Luther’s Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum of 1517, commonly known as the Ninety-Five Theses, is considered the central document of the Protestant Reformation. Its complete title reads: “Out of love and zeal for clarifying the truth, these items written below will be debated at Wittenberg. Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology and an official professor at Wittenberg, will speak in their defense. He asks this in the matter: That those who are unable to be present to debate with us in speech should, though absent from the scene, treat the matter by correspondence. In the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.” The document went on to list 95 clerical abuses, chiefly relating to the sale of indulgences (payment for remission of earthly punishment of sins) by the Roman Catholic Church. Luther (1483–1546), a German priest and professor of theology, became the most important figure in the great religious revolt against the Catholic Church known as the Reformation. While he intended to use the 95 theses as the basis for an academic dispute, his indictment of church practices rapidly spread, thanks to the then still-new art of printing. By the end of 1517, three editions of the theses were published in Germany, in Leipzig, Nuremberg, and Basel, by printers who did not supply their names. It is estimated that each of these early editions was of about 300 copies, of which very few survived. This copy in the collections of the Berlin State Library was printed in Nuremberg by Hieronymus Höltzel. It was discovered in a London bookshop in 1891 by the director of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) and presented to the Royal Library by the Prussian Ministry for Education and Culture.

Language

Latin

Publication date

1517

Collection

Berlin State Library

	Native name	Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
	Parent institution	Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
	Location	Berlin
	Coordinates	52° 30′ 26″ N, 13° 22′ 15″ E
	Established	1661
	Website	staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
	Authority file	: Q170109 VIAF: 129599949 ISNI: 0000000123238044 LCCN: n50026319 NLA: 35017812 GND: 5036103-X WorldCat

Place of publication

Nuremburg

Authority file

OCLC: 249862464

Source

http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN644115580&PHYSID=PHYS_0001

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