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Luther's Mother Margarethe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Ian D. K. Siggins
Affiliation:
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 02138

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What do we know about Luther's mother?

According to the biographers, very little. We have “only a very shadowy conception,” Heinrich Boehmer says, in spite of Spalatin's remark that Martin was her “spit and image.” Even Erik Erikson, who is quite ready to offer clinical extrapolations from scant evidence, admits that a “big gap exists here, which only conjecture could fill.”

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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1978

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