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Re: October 31st - Picture of the Day
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:18:29 GMT
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Hello!
> Just read this thread again. Not trying to nit-pick, but I think you may be
> mixing up your historical figures. The Martin Luther you rendered in Lego
> was (I believe) just Martin Luther, not a Doctor.
Nope. :-)
The reformer Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk and also a Doctor of
Theology at the University of Wittenberg. This is why he nailed his 95
theses on the church's door there because this door was used as a bill-board
for the University and he wanted his theses to be publicly disputed. (Well,
as I said before, probably this symbolic act of nailing the theses on the
door never took place, but Luther wrote his theses for the purpose of
scholarly argument.)
> The "Dr." probably seems
> to precede that name in your mind because your are thinking of Dr. Martin
> Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader during the 1960s who shared a
> couple names with the Church reformer of centuries earlier...
Indeed, the two have a couple of things in common. Martin Luther King's
parents must have anticipated their son's subsequent life when they named him.
Bye
Jojo
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| (...) Ah. That I did not know. Thank you for correcting my oversight! :) I do find it interesting that the story of him nailing things to the door might be a myth or exaggeration. I have often wondered how someone in his day and age could have (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Just read this thread again. Not trying to nit-pick, but I think you may be mixing up your historical figures. The Martin Luther you rendered in Lego was (I believe) just Martin Luther, not a Doctor. The "Dr." probably seems to precede that (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.castle)
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