Video biography of martin luther

Heiko A. Oberman was a scholar of the Reformation, the Renaissance, and the late Middle Ages. During his long academic and scholarly career he published many books and articles, but he is best known for his acclaimed biography of Martin Luther, entitled “Luther: Man Between God and the Devil”, published in English by Yale University Press in 1989, and originally published in German in 1982.

Oberman was born in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands on October 15, 1930.

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He remained close to home for his university studies and earned both his undergraduate degree and doctoral degree, cum laude, in historical theology from the University of Utrecht in 1957. Oberman had clearly made an impact in his field of study during his graduate student career, and was offered an academic position as an instructor by Harvard University’s Divinity School.

He also became an ordained minister during that time. It is not clear in which denomination, or