Luminarium: "Martin Bucer" (1491-1551)

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MARTIN BUCER (or Butzer), German Protestant reformer,
was born in 1491 at Schlettstadt in Alsace. In 1506 he entered the Dominican
order, and was sent to study at Heidelberg. There he became acquainted with the
works of Erasmus and Luther, and was present at a
disputation of the latter with some of the Romanist doctors. He became a