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The Luther Celebration in Germany: Luther's school at Mansfeld, (1883). Creator: Unknown.

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The Luther Celebration in Germany: Luther's school at Mansfeld, (1883). 'In 1497, [German priest, theologian and author Martin Luther (1483-1546)], then aged fourteen, quitted Mansfeld, where he had received a fair elementary education, and, with his boy friend Hans Reinicke, set out as a vagrant scholar for Magdeburg, there to enter one of the Carrend-Schulen or mendicant schools which then abounded, and which even now exist in some of the more primitive towns of Saxony. From Magdeburg, Martin, in 1498, wandered to Eisenach - his own beloved Eisenach, as he always called it - where, still as a Carrend boy, he studied and starved, and sang before the town's-folks' doors at dawn and dusk to gain his daily bread. "Let no one," said Luther, in later life - "let no one in my presence speak contemptuously of the poor fellows who go from door to door singing and begging bread propter Deum! You know the Psalm says, Princes and Kings have sung. I myself was a poor mendicant, seeking my bread at people's houses, particularly at Eisenach - my own dear Eisenach".' From "Illustrated London News", 1883.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A50_326

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4,7Mo (687,7Ko) / 48,8cm x 41,6cm / 1383 x 1178 (72dpi)

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