About Martin Luther, Johann Eck, and Andreas Karlstadt
Johann Eck (1486–1543), born Johann Maier at Egg in Swabia, was professor of theology at the University of Ingolstadt and one of the most accomplished debaters of his time; after Leipzig he helped prepare the papal bull Exsurge Domine (1520) and wrote the widely used Enchiridion against the Lutherans. Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (1486–1541) was a senior colleague of Luther's on the Wittenberg theology faculty and archdeacon of the Castle Church; he later broke with Luther over the Lord's Supper and church reform and ended his career teaching at Basel. Martin Luther (1483–1546), Augustinian friar and professor of Bible at Wittenberg, had published the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 and became the leading figure of the Reformation.
The Leipzig Disputation was a formal academic debate held in the great hall of the Pleissenburg, the ducal castle at Leipzig, from late June to mid-July 1519, under the patronage of Duke George of Saxony and against the wishes of the local bishop of Merseburg. It grew out of a challenge by Johann Eck of Ingolstadt, who had criticized Luther's theses on indulgences and in late 1518 published theses for debate with Andreas Karlstadt of Wittenberg, aimed in fact at Luther.
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