About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Chinese-German translators, English-German translators, French-German translators, Latin-German translators, Translators of the Bible into German, Moses Mendelssohn, Edith Stein, Martin Luther, Martin Buber, Arnold Ehrlich, Christoph Martin Wieland, Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Liebenthal, Rudolf Ritsema, Karl Dedecius, Renate Stendhal, Dorothea von Schlegel, Josef Pieper, Gustav Heinse, Ino Kolbe, Ilija Trojanow, Hans Bethge, Thomas Zimmerman, Hans Denck, Gabriel Kuhn, Kaspar Ulenberg, Christian Enzensberger, Erika Fuchs, Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Fanny Tarnow, Oskar Rosenfeld, Franz Kuhn, Franz Blei, Moriz Lieber, Johannes Crellius, Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Hedda Eulenberg, Therese Albertine Luise Robinson, Anna Kohler, Abraham Lederer, Friedrich Torberg, Richard Wilhelm, Johann Dietenberger, Caroline Schelling, Lebrecht Blucher Dreves, Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin, Janos Majlath, Jonathan Paul, Ludwig Haetzer, Jeremias Felbinger, Ernst von der Malsburg, Heinrich Leuthold, Herbert Meier, Ludwig Schodl, Williram, Hugo Zuckermann, Joachim Stegmann, Rudi Graetz, Peter Andresen Oelrichs, Peter Waterhouse, Otto Gildemeister. Excerpt: Martin Luther (10 November 1483 - 18 February 1546) was a German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor. Luther taught that salvation is not earned by good deeds but received only as a free gift of God's grace through faith in Jesus Chris...
