Luther Chronology to 1521

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• 1483
  • November 10 Born at roughly 11:00 p.m. in Eisleben
  • November 11 (St. Martin's Day) Baptized in the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul.
• 1484 Luthers Move to Mansfeld
• 1491 Age 7
  • March 12 Begins school at the Mansfeld Lateinschule.
• 1497 Age 13
  • Begins boarding school in Magdeburg
  • He boards with the Brethren of the Common Life
• 1498 Age 14
  • Begins attending the parish school of St. George in Eisenach
  • He stays with relatives, then, with Heinrich Schalbe
• 1501 Age 17
  • Moves to Erfurt to study liberal arts at the University of Erfurt
  • In 3 Semesters:
    • Grammar: Lesser “Priscian” Second part of the “Alexander”
    • Logic: 13th Century Compendium of Petrus Hispanus
    • Commentary on Aristotle by the Neoplatonist Porphyry
    • Aristotle’s Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics “and his writings that dealt with fallacies”
    • Nat Phil.: Aristotle’s Physics, Psychology and Astronomy
    • Rhetoric: Laborinthus of Eberhard of Bethune.
• 1502 Age 18
  • July 2 Finishes 30th in a group of 57 for baccaleureate
  • Sept. 29 Receives his Baccalaureate degree
  • Required to give lectures on Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric
  • Begins studying for his Masters.
  • Studies with Jodokus Trutfetter of Eisenach and Bartholomäus Arnoldi von Usingen
    • Logic: Aristotle’s Topics
    • Nat. Phil.: Aristotle’s On the Heavens, On Generations and Corruption, Meteorology, On the Soul, Parva Naturalia, Metaphysics (6 months)
    • Nicomachean Ethics (8 months)
    • Politics (6 months)
    • Economics (1 month)
    • Mathmatics: Euclid
    • Arithmetic
    • Planets
    • Music
• 1505 Age 21
  • Jan. Receives his Masters degree.
  • May 19 Begins law school at University of Erfurt.
  • Teaches philosophy for the Liberal Arts program
  • July 2 Calls out to St. Anne, patron saint of minors on way back to Erfurt from Mansfield
  • July 17 Joins Augutinian Hermits in the Black Monastery in Erfurt.
• 1506 Age 22
  • July /August Takes his monastic vows
  • September 19 Becomes a subdeacon.
• 1507 Age 23
  • February 27 Ordained a deacon.
  • April 3 Ordained to the priesthood.
  • May 2 Celebrates his first mass.
  • Summer: Begins five-year course of study of theology at Erfurt
    • Studies Lombard’s Sentences
    • Studies under (probably) nominalist Johann Nathin, Leonhard Heutleb
• 1508 Age 24
  • Summer Sem.: Lectures on philosophy
  • Fall: Transferred to Wittenberg to fill in for lecturer in philosophy
  • Lectures during winter semester on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
• 1509 Age 25
  • March 9 Earns baccalaureus biblicus
  • Fall: Earns baccalaureus sententiarius
  • October 1: Returns to Erfurt from Wittenberg.
    • Gives lectures on Peter Lombard’s Sentences
    • Earns baccalareus sententiarius formatus [?](Given after completing lectures on the first two books of the Sentences)
• 1510 Age 26
  • November Journeys to Rome
• 1511 Age 27
  • April Returns to Erfurt from Rome
  • Early Summer
    • Finishes lectures on the Sentences
    • Reads Revelations of Bridget of Sweden (d. 1373)
    • Bonaventure’s mystical writings
    • Gerson
    • Dionysius the Aeropagite
    • De spiritualibus ascensionibus of Geert Zerbolt von Zutphen (1367-98);
  • Transferred to Wittenberg
• 1512 Age 28
  • Begins teaching again at the University of Wittenberg
  • October 19 Becomes a Doctor of Theology
  • October 22 Admitted to the senate of the theology faculty at the University of Wittenberg
• 1513 Age 29
  • August 16 Begins lecturing on the Psalms
• 1514 Age 30
  • Becomes priest for Wittenberg's city church in addition to his duties at the university.
• 1515 Age 31
  • Appointed the Augustinian vicar for Meissen and Thuringia and thus is put in charge of 11 monasteries in his area
  • May: Begins a year of lectures on the Epistle to the Romans
• 1516 Age 32
  • Plague strikes Wittenberg, Luther stays
  • October 27 Begins a year of lectures on Galatians.
  • December Publishes the Theologia Germanica
• 1517 Age 33
  • Spring Begins a year of lectures on Hebrews
    • Works on Commentary on Aristotles’s Physics to dethrone “the god of the scholastics” (LW 31:6)
  • September 4 Disputation Against Scholastic Theology
  • October 31: 95 Theses
  • The Seven Penitential Psalms
• 1518 Age 34
  • March 26 (Inner-Augustinian) Disputation at Heidelberg begins
  • April Luther joins debate
  • April 26th Heidelberg Disputation
  • August 5 Denounced as heretic by Emperor Maximilian
  • August 7 Summoned to Rome to answer charges against him
  • October Begins three years of lectures on Psalms
  • October 12-14 In lieu of trip to Rome, interviewed by Cajetan in Augsburg
• 1519 Age 35
  • Jan. 4-6 Interviewed by papal chamberlain Carl von Miltitz in Altenburg
  • Palm Sunday Two Kinds of Righteousness (Printed Sermon?)
  • June 27-Jul. 4 Debate with Eck in Leipzig
  • October: Luther begins second round of lectures on the Psalms
  • Mid October: The Sacrament of Penance (Printed Sermon)
  • Nov. 9 The Holy and Blessed Sacrament of Baptism
  • Dec. 24 The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy and True Body of Christ, and the Brotherhoods
• 1520 Age 36
  • Completes Brief Form of the 10 Commandments
  • Brief Form of the Creed
  • Brief Form of the Lord’s Prayer
  • Feb. Fourteen Consolations
  • Lent: Meditation of Christ’s Passion
  • March 26 Antwort Martin Luthers auf die Artikel, welche die Magistri nostril zu Lo”wen und Ko”ln…
  • May Treatise on Good Works
  • June 11 The Papacy in Rome
  • June Open Letter to the Christian Nobility
  • June 15 Pope Leo X: Exsurge Domine
  • July 20 Appeal to the German Nobility
  • July A Treatise on the New Testament, that is, the Holy Mass
  • Oct. 6 The Babylonian Captivity
  • Nov. 12 Luther’s books burned
  • Nov. 20 Freedom of the Christian
  • Dec. 10 Burns Exsurge Domine and other papal documents…
• 1521
  • January 3 Luther excommunicated in the bull Decet Romanum Pontificem