Martin Luther

Also known as
Luther
Dates
1483–1546
Role
Protestant reformer, founder of Lutheranism

Protestant reformer against whom Cardinal Hosius contended as a "distinguished scourge." His followers, called "Saxon Lutherologists and babblers," cited Deuteronomy at the Regensburg disputation to proscribe traditions.

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)