Katharine von Bora: Dr. Martin Luther's Wife

KATHARINA VON BORA From a Portrait by Lucas Kranich
Dr. Martin Luther's Wife
A PICTURE FROM LIFE,
ARMIN STEIN.
TRANSLATED BY E. A. ENDLICH.
PHILADELPHIA THE UNITED LUTHERAN PUBLICATION HOUSE
COPYRIGHT, 1890.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
It has been my purpose in Katharine von Bora, to picture in the peaceful quiet of his domestic happiness, the man whose influence so largely shaped the course of public events.
The undertaking has not been altogether an easy one; for, while history flows in a copious stream, regarding the Reformer himself, it gives but meager information as to the great man's wife,—the humble, modest woman, who never thrust herself forward, nor sought any personal advantage from her husband's greatness,—but remained contentedly in the background, glad to do him service, and to enrich her own heart from the abundance of his spiritual riches. Only occasional fragments give us glimpses of Katharine's life, and out of these I will endeavor to form a completer picture.