Argula von Grumbach
Author
1492 – 1568
Who was Argula von Grumbach?
Argula von Grumbach was a Bavarian noblewoman who, starting in the early 1520s, became involved in the Protestant Reformation debates going on in Germany. She became the first Protestant woman writer, publishing letters and poems promoting and defending Martin Luther as well as his co-worker Philipp Melanchthon and other Protestant groups. She is most known for directly challenging the University of Ingolstadt’s faculty when she wrote a letter to them speaking out against the arrest of a Lutheran student. As one of the few women at the time openly speaking out her views, her writings sparked controversy and often became bestsellers, with tens of thousands of copies of her letters and poems circulating within a few years of their publication.
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- Born
- 1492
- Nationality
- Germany
- Lived in
- Bavaria
- Died
- Jun 23, 1568
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on July 23, 2013
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