biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1465–1519)
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| biography:
| Monk, born in Pirna, E Germany. He became a Dominican in 1489, and was appointed in 1516 to preach an indulgence in favour of contributors to the building fund of St Peter's in Rome. This he did with great ostentation, thereby provoking the Wittenberg theses of Luther, and his own reply. |
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