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==Early life==
==Early life==
Bucer was born on November 11, 1491 in the town of Schlettstadt, near [[Strasbourg]] in the German-speaking area of modern-day [[France]].<ref name="Reformation500">[http://reformation500.csl.edu/bio/martin-bucer/ Martin Bucer]. ''reformation500.csl.edu''. Retrieved December 22, 2016.</ref> Although from a very poor family (his father was a [[cobbler]]), Bucer was able to attend a prestigious [[Dominican Order|Dominican]]-led Latin school in Schlettstadt, in which he took to join in 1506.<ref name="Reformation500"/><ref>Trinterud, L.J. [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Bucer Martin Bucer]. ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Retrieved December 22, 2016.</ref> In 1516, Bucer transferred to [[Heidelberg]], in modern-day [[Germany]], to another Dominican institution for the purpose of continuing his education.<ref name="Reformation500"/> One of his professors there was [[Johannes Brenz]], who would also become a Reformer, and Bucer became influenced by [[Erasmus]] during this time.<ref name="Reformation500"/>
Bucer was born on November 11, 1491 in the town of Schlettstadt, near [[Strasbourg]] in the German-speaking area of modern-day [[France]].<ref name="Reformation500">[http://reformation500.csl.edu/bio/martin-bucer/ Martin Bucer]. ''reformation500.csl.edu''. Retrieved December 22, 2016.</ref> Although from a very poor family (his father was a [[cobbler]]), Bucer was able to attend a prestigious [[Dominican Order|Dominican]]-led Latin school in Schlettstadt, in which he took to join in 1506.<ref name="Reformation500"/><ref name="Britannica">Trinterud, L.J. [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Bucer Martin Bucer]. ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Retrieved December 22, 2016.</ref> In 1516, Bucer transferred to [[Heidelberg]], in modern-day [[Germany]], to another Dominican institution for the purpose of continuing his education.<ref name="Reformation500"/> One of his professors there was [[Johannes Brenz]], who would also become a Reformer, and Bucer became influenced by [[Erasmus]] during this time.<ref name="Reformation500"/>
==Becoming a Reformer==
In April of 1518, Bucer happened to attend to [[Heidelberg Disputation]], where he heard [[Martin Luther]] criticize the unbiblical views held by the [[Roman Catholic Church]].<ref name="Reformation500"/> He quickly became convinced by Luther and received permission by the [[Pope]] to leave the [[Dominican Order]] in 1521.<ref name="Reformation500"/><ref name="Britannica"/> After working for the count palatine of the Rhine, and Elector of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], Bucer became a pastor at Landstuhl, in modern-day far-western Germany.<ref name="Reformation500"/><ref name="Britannica"/>
While at Landstuhl, Bucer married Elizabeth Silbereisen, a former nun.<ref name="Reformation500"/> After the leader of Landstuhl, Franz von Sickingen, unsuccessfully led the Knights’ War against the elector of Trier,<ref name="Reformation500"/> Bucer was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church in 1523 and went to Strasbourg.<ref name="Britannica"/> Along the way, Bucer stopped at Weissenburg to help the reform movement there, and he preached several sermons and wrote his first theological treatise.<ref name="Reformation500"/>
==References==
==References==