When did Martin Luther Die?

Martin Luther died on February 18, 1546.

Luther died of a stroke at age 62 in his hometown of Eisleben. He was interred in front of the pulpit of the Castle Church at Wittenberg, the very Church whose doors he had posted his 95 Theses on years before.

At the time of his death, he was revered by Protestant sects as an international hero and condemned by Catholics as an irredeemable devil, believed to have disrupted the Church’s unity as an instrument of Satan.

Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymn writer, professor, and Augustinian friar. Also, he was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs formed the basis of Lutheranism.