Word: luther
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecturer said that the consideration of Lessing's works came appropriately after the consideration of the works of Luther, as both men were reformers not only of the substance of German literature, but also of its form. Luther freed the German language from its bondage to the Latin, Lessing freed it from its dependence on foreign imitation...
Asst. Professor Francke delivered, yesterday afternoon, the third of the series of introductory lectures on German literature. His subject was "Luther as a Writer." The history of the German people in the sixteenth century, said Professor Francke, was wonderfully strange and sad. At the beginning of the century Germany stood at the head of the movement for truth and light; at the end, the Catholic church was there, in the very home of Protestantism, slowly and surely gaining ground. The chief reason for this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet...
...Luther's first great blow at Rome was the Theses, written in 1517 against the Indulgences. "No one can step between me and my conscience," said Luther. "Only by regeneration of myself can I come to salvation. The Theses were followed in 1520 by the Address on the Improving of Christian Society, In this pamphlet Luther attacked the whole body of canonic law, and preached, as he knew well, nothing less than a complete revolution in the church and in society. Two more pamphlets published in the same year entitled "The Babylonian Captivity," and "The Liberty of the Christian...
...Luther as a Writer. Lecture. Asst. Professor Francke. Sever...
...third lecture on German literature to the freshmen will be given tomorrow by Professor Francke. His subject will be "Luther as a Writer...