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“Finding Luther”: Toward an Archaeology of the Reformer and the Earliest Reformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2017

Louis D. Nebelsick  and
Tomoko Emmerling
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Abstract

In view of Martin Luther's prominence as a person who changed the course of world history with his Reformation and given the abundance of historical sources on the reformer's life and work, the great extent to which archaeological discoveries of the last fifteen years have shed new and sometimes surprising light on the reformer's life might seem astonishing. The study at hand presents these new insights by introducing the results of archaeological excavations that took place on the premises of Martin Luther's parents’ home in Mansfeld and in the garden of the Luther House in Wittenberg, which for more than thirty years was the home of the reformer. The discoveries made in both places allow new insights into the reformer's and his family's everyday life. They enrich, or even correct, our knowledge about these aspects with fascinating, new, and sometimes surprising facets. The majority of the archaeological finds took place prior to the exhibition “Finding Luther: Archaeologists on the Reformer's Trail” at the State Museum of Prehistory Halle (Saale) (2008/2009) and in the framework of the project “Luther Archaeology” at the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology of Saxony-Anhalt (2010–2015). These finds, as well as architectural, archival, and scientific investigations, shed new light on Martin Luther's family background and childhood, on the social status of his parents, as well as on his immediate living environment and the high living standard in his Wittenberg home. Taken together, these conditions reflect his social status as a respected professor of theology, protagonist of the Reformation, and member of the highest social class in Wittenberg. The last section of this study gives an insight into some selected results of further excavations that have been carried out throughout Wittenberg during the last few years. They make it possible to contextualize not only Luther's household but also the consequences of the Reformation within early modern Wittenberg.

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Church History , Volume 86 , Special Issue 4: Church History in Commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation , December 2017 , pp. 1155 - 1207
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 2017 

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10 Meller, Fundsache Luther. In the same year (2008), the conference proceedings (Meller, Rhein, and Stephan, Luthers Lebenswelten) were published, after the finds from Mansfeld had already been presented in a publication in the previous year: Meller, Luther in Mansfeld.

11 This took place within the framework of the project “Lutherarchäologie” at the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology of Saxony-Anhalt that was sponsored by the Federal and State Finance Ministries within the framework of the so-called “Mauerfonds.” The following publications emerged from this project: Meller, Harald, ed., Mitteldeutschland im Zeitalter der Reformation: Interdisziplinäre Tagung vom 22. bis 24. Juni 2012 in Halle (Saale) (Halle an der Saale: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 2014)Google Scholar; Meller, , ed., Glas, Steinzeug und Bleilettern aus Wittenberg (Halle an der Saale: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 2014)Google Scholar; Meller, and Fessner, Michael, eds., Mansfelder Schächte und Stollen (Halle an der Saale: Forschungsberichte des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte, 2015)Google Scholar; Meller, , ed., Fokus: Wittenberg; Die Stadt und ihr Lutherhaus: Multidisziplinäre Forschungen über und unter Tage (Halle an der Saale: Forschungsberichte des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte, 2015)Google Scholar; Meller, , ed., Mansfeld – Luther(s)stadt: Interdisziplinäre Forschungen zur Heimat Martin Luthers (Halle an der Saale: Forschungsberichte des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte, 2015)Google Scholar.

12 Three US exhibitions on Luther's life and legacy were held more or less contemporaneously between October 2016 and January 2017 in Minneapolis, New York, and Atlanta. They were accompanied by a catalogue volume: Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation; but also a wide-ranging essay volume: Meller, et al, Martin Luther and the Reformation.

13 See, for instance, Schilling, Heinz, Martin Luther: Rebell in einer Zeit des Umbruchs, 3rd ed. (München: C. H. Beck, 2016), 56 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Dieterich, Veit-Jakobus, Martin Luther: Sein Leben und seine Zeit (München: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 2008), 9 Google Scholar; and Schwarz, Hans, True Faith in the True God: An Introduction to Luther's Life and Thought (Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 2015), 8 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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17 See Todorov, Nicola P., “Le transfert du modèle administratif napoléonien en Allemagne: Enjeux et héritages,” in Savoirs et métiers de l'État au XXe siècle: France et États germaniques, ed. Krulic, Brigitte (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2014), 13–31 Google Scholar. We would like to thank Christian Philipsen for information on the Mansfeld mairie.

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19 For the excavation, see Schlenker, Björn, “Archäologie am Elterhaus Martin Luthers,” in Luther in Mansfeld: Forschungen am Elternhaus des Reformators, ed. Meller, Harald (Halle an der Saale: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 2007), 17–31 Google Scholar; and for the many small dimension coins, see Ulf Dräger, “Die Münzen – Eine verlorene Haushaltskasse?” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 159–168.

20 Schlenker, “Archäologie am Elterhaus Martin Luthers,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 28–31; Stahl and Schlenker, “Lutherarchäologie in Mansfeld,” in Fundsache Luther, ed. Meller, 130; and Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 68–69.

21 In what follows, we will only be spotlighting finds from this vast assemblage that have given us significant new information about the reformer.

22 See Hans-Jürgen Döhle, “Tierreste aus Küchenabfällen der Familien Hans Luder in Mansfeld und Martin Luther in Wittenberg,” in Luthers Lebenswelten, ed. Meller, Rhein, and Stephan, 330–333; Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 62–63; and Meller, Fundsache Luther, pp. 174–176, nos. C24–C25.

23 Döhle, “Tierreste aus Küchenabfällen,” in Luthers Lebenswelten, ed. Meller, Rhein, and Stephan, 333–334; Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 63; see also Meller, Fundsache Luther, pp. 176–178, no. C27 “Singvögel” (“Bones of Songbirds”), no. C30 “Lockpfeifen” (“Bird Calls”).

24 Fessner, “Die Familie Luder in Möhra und Mansfeld,” in Fundsache Luther, 84–85; for the blackcock bone, see Meller, ed., Fundsache Luther, p. 176, no. C26; and Hans-Jürgen Döhle, “Schwein, Geflügel und Fisch – bei Luthers zu Tisch,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 174–175, with fig. 11.

25 Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 63.

26 Dirk Heinrich, “Fischkonsum in Luthers Elternhaus als Spiegel für Fischerei und Fischhandel in der frühen Neuzeit,” in Luthers Lebenswelten, ed. Meller, Rhein, and Stephan, 342–344; Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 63; and Meller, Fundsache Luther, p. 178, no. C28. See sixteenth-century miners augmenting their income by fishing: Döhle, “Schwein, Geflügel und Fisch,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, fig. 22.

27 Heinrich, “Fischkonsum in Luthers Elternhaus,” in Luthers Lebenswelten, ed. Meller, Rhein, and Stephan, 338–342; Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 63; and Meller, Fundsache Luther, p. 178, no. C29.

28 Summed up by Monika Hellmund, in Meller, Fundsache Luther, pp. 178–182, nos. C31–C40; and Monika Hellmund, “Pflanzenfunde aus der Luthergrube,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 187–200.

29 Monika Hellmund, “Die Familie Martin Luthers und die Pflanzenwelt,” in Luthers Lebenswelten, ed. Meller, Rhein, and Stephan, 353.

30 Ibid., 355–357.

31 Ibid., 356.

32 Ibid., 358–360.

33 Schlenker, “Archäologie am Elterhaus Martin Luthers,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 99–101; and Meller, Fundsache Luther, pp. 188–190, no. C56.

34 See Michael Fessner, “Die Familie Luder in Möhra und Mansfeld,” in Fundsache Luther, ed. Meller, p. 79, fig. 35; and Lucas Cranach the Elder, Bildnis der Margaretha Luther, Luthers Mutter, Wartburg-Stiftung Eisenach Cranach Digital Archive, http://lucascranach.org/DE_WSE_M0069.

35 Bartmuß, “Die Tischreden als Quelle für Luthers Luthers Kindheit und Jugend,” in Martin Luther und Eisleben, ed. Knape, 121–142; and Melanchton, Phillip, Vita Lutheri (Wittenberg, 1555), 9–10 Google Scholar. See also Günther Wartenberg, “Martin Luthers Kindheit, Jugend und erste Schulzeit in frühen biografischen Darstellungen des Reformators,” in Martin Luther und Eisleben, ed. Knape, 145–146.

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38 Ibid., 47–61; Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 67–68; and Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation, p. 36, nos. 16–17.

39 Schlenker, “Archäologie am Elterhaus Martin Luthers,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 34–47.

40 The jingle jangles may come from such a crown: ibid., 44–47; and see also Meller, Fundsache Luther, p. 170, no. C10.

41 Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation, p. 34, no. 15.

42 Schlenker, “Archäologie am Elterhaus Martin Luthers,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 62–67; Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 67; and, most recently, Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation, p. 37, no. 18.

43 Schlenker, “Archäologie am Elterhaus Martin Luthers,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 72–79; and Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 65–66.

44 Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation, p. 22, no. 2.

45 Ibid., p. 24, no. 3.

46 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Kinderspiele, Gemäldegalerie, 1017, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, www.khm.at/de/object/caf1a3dfb5/.

47 Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation, p. 24, no. 4.

48 Schlenker, “Archäologie am Elterhaus Martin Luthers,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 96–99; Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 67; and Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation, p. 26, no. 6.

49 For a summary account of the Aachen pilgrimage, see Hartmut Kühne, “Zwischen Totschlag und Tourismus: Spuren von Wallfahrt und Pilgerschaft im mitteldeutschen Umfeld Luthers,” in Luthers Lebenswelten, ed. Meller, Rhein, and Stephan, 378–387, esp. 378–380.

50 Schlenker, “Archäologie am Elterhaus Martin Luthers,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 92–94; Stahl and Schlenker, “Luther in Mansfeld,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 65; and Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation, p. 43, no. 24.

51 Schlenker, “Archäologie am Elterhaus Martin Luthers,” in Luther in Mansfeld, ed. Meller, 92–94.

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62 Preliminary reports on this excavation include: Hans-Georg Stephan, “Lutherarchäologie: Funde und Befunde aus Mansfeld und Wittenberg; Gedanken und Materialien zur Erforschung der Lebenswelt des Reformators und zur Alltagskultur Mitteldeutschlands im 16. Jh.,” in Luthers Lebenswelten, ed. Meller, Rhein, and Stephan, 13–77, esp. 17–73; Schmitt and Gutjahr, “Das ‘Schwarze Kloster’ in Wittenberg,” in Fundsache Luther, ed. Meller, 132–139; Gutjahr, Mirko, “Wie protestantisch ist Luthers Müll? Die Konfessionalisierung und ihre Auswirkungen auf die materielle Alltagskultur des 16. Jahrhunderts,” in Religiosität in Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. Untermann, Matthias (Paderborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, 2011), 43–50 Google Scholar; and Mirko Gutjahr, “The First Protestant Parsonage? Luther's House and Household According to Archaeological Evidence,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 165–172.

63 Schmitt and Gutjahr, “Das ‘Schwarze Kloster’ in Wittenberg,” in Fundsache Luther, ed. Meller, 133. For the tower experience, see Thompson, W. D. J. Cargill, “The Problem of Luther's ‘Tower Experience’ and its Place in his Intellectual Development,” in Religious Motivation: Biographical and Sociological Problems for the Church Historian, ed. Baker, Derek (Oxford: Blackwell, 1978), 187–211 Google Scholar; and Volker Leppin, “Becoming a Reformer,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 86–91.

64 Gutjahr, “Wie protestantisch ist Luthers Müll?,” in Religiosität in Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. Untermann, 45.

65 For a series of glasses and precious vessels traditionally said to have belonged to Luther, see Meller, Fundsache Luther, 310–318; and see also Mirko Gutjahr, “‘Non cultus est, sed memoriae gratia’: Hinterlassenschaften Luthers zwischen Reliquien und Relikten,” in Fundsache Luther, ed. Meller, 100–105, esp. 101–103.

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69 Ibid., p. 257, no. 260.

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122 See Andrew Pettegree, “A Media Event,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 115–121; Berger, Daniel and Stieme, Sophia Linda, “Die Wittenberger Letternfunde aus der Bügermeisterstraße 5: Eine typografische, historische und materialkundliche Betrachtung,” in Glas, Steinzeug und Bleilettern aus Wittenberg, ed. Meller, Harald (Halle an der Saale: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 2014), 269–272 Google Scholar.

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126 Kluttig-Altmann, “Archäologische Funde von Grundstücken der Familie Cranach,” in Das ernestinische Wittenberg, ed. Lück, et al., 363–399.

127 Ibid., 365–378.

128 Ibid., 368–374.

129 Ibid., 368–372.

130 Ibid., 372–374.

131 Ibid., 366–367; Johanna Reetz and Holger Rode, “Early Modern Domestic and Dining Culture in Wittenberg Reflected by Prestigious Archaeological Finds,” in Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. Meller, et al, 144–145, with figs. 1 and 2.

132 For further finds from this site, see Kluttig-Altmann, “Archäologische Funde von Grundstücken der Familie Cranach,” in Das ernestinische Wittenberg, ed. Lück, et al., 378–387.

133 Ibid., 380–382.

134 Ibid., 392–398.

135 For Judith's role in Reformation iconography, see Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation, p. 339, nos. 351, 352.

136 Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation, pp. 272–274, nos. 279, 280.

137 Johanna Reetz “Judith und der Kaiser: Zeichen der Identifikation und Distinktion in einem Kachelkomplex aus Wittenberg,” in Mitteldeutschland im Zeitalter der Reformation, ed. Meller, 209–213; Kluttig-Altmann, “Archäologische Funde von Grundstücken der Familie Cranach,” in Das ernestinische Wittenberg, ed. Lück, et al., 394–395.

138 For the site as a whole, see Holger Rode, “Die Abfallgrube der Alchemistenwerkstatt und die anatomischen Befunde im aufgelassenen Wittenberger Franziskanerkloster,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts: Fallstudien aus Wittenberg und vergleichbare Befunde; Internationale Tagung vom 3. bis 4. Juli 2015 in Halle (Saale), ed. Harald Meller, Alfred Reichenberger, and Christian-Heinrich Wunderlich (Halle an der Saale: Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte, 2016), 29–44.

139 For the restoration of these fragile glasses, see Vera Keil, “Zur Restaurierung der Wittenberger Alchemiefunde,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 45–58. For the function of the alchemist's vessels, see Christian-Heinrich Wunderlich, “Keine ‘Alchimei böser Buben’: Spagyrische Arzneiproduktion in Renaissance und Barock am Beispiel der Laborfunde von Wittenberg und Huysburg,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 59–67.

140 For the products of this workshop, see Wunderlich, “Keine ‘Alchimei böser Buben,’” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 69–84.

141 Holger Rode dates the finds between 1525 and 1537: Rode, “Die Abfallgrube der Alchemistenwerkstatt,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 39–40.

142 Others date it in the late sixteenth or first half of the seventeenth century: Hans-Georg Stephan, “Gläsernes und keramisches Laborgerät, Trinkgläser und Gebrauchskeramik des Wittenberger Alchemistenfundes: Aspekte der zeitlichen, kultur – und wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Einordnung,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 109–126. Andreas Stahl sees this workshop in connection with the interest of Duke August and Duchess Anna of Saxony in the second half of the sixteenth century: “Alchemistische Netzwerke in und um Wittenberg: Faust in Wittenberg?,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 205–248.

143 Stahl, “Alchemistische Netzwerke in und um Wittenberg,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 205–207.

144 Ibid., 224–225; and Meller, et al, Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation, p. 150, nos. 139–141.

145 Rode, “Die Abfallgrube der Alchemistenwerkstatt,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 41–42.

146 Christian Meyer, Jens Brauer, Holger Rode, and Kurt W. Alt, “Menschliche Skelettfunde mit Spuren anatomischer Sektionen des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts und frühe Fälle von Syphilis aus der ehemaligen Franziskanerkirche in Wittenberg,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 154–159.

147 Ibid., 159–163.

148 Rode, “Die Abfallgrube der Alchemistenwerkstatt,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 42; and Meyer, Brauer, Rode, and Alt, “Menschliche Skelettfunde mit Spuren anatomischer Sektionen des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts,” in Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Meller, Reichenberger, and Wunderlich, 153–171, esp. 163, 165–167, 169–171.