2-798-872 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Luther's House, at Wittenberg, 1845. The Lutherhaus, built in 1504 as part of the University of Wittenberg in Germany, was home to Protestant reformer Martin Luther for most of his adult life. 'The town is familiar to us as the location of one of the oldest Universities in Germany, and is a large place, of 8,500 inhabitants, about thirty miles from Berlin, on the railroad between that capital and Leipsig. The church in which Luther is buried is at one end of the town, and his dwelling at the other'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.