# Luther publishes On War Against the Turk

Date: 1529

## The fact

In 1529 Vom Kriege wider die Türken appeared as Ottoman armies pressed Vienna. Luther rejected a papal crusade but affirmed the emperor's sword.

## Context

Suleiman's 1529 campaign. This is not the peasant pamphlet and not the Jewish tracts. It is a war-theology book.

## Evidence and sources

1529 treatise. Establishes the argument. Does not make [Luther](/people/martin-luther) a commander at Vienna. Wikipedia is not used as a causal source.

## Significance

Polarisation against an external empire plus a limit: no papal crusade indulgence.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1529 book. Not established: that it determined Habsburg strategy. Confidence high on the text.

The event remains dated 1529-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He argued that fighting the Ottoman advance was the emperor's temporal duty while rejecting a papal crusade. The welfare reading is worsening, through [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization), FDI strengthening at weight 0.3 direction 1. A 1529 war tract in the year of Vienna's siege frames Turks as apocalyptic enemy while splitting crusade theology from imperial war. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1529-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He argued that fighting the Ottoman advance was the emperor's temporal duty while rejecting a papal crusade. The welfare reading is worsening, through political-polarization, FDI strengthening at weight 0.3 direction 1. A 1529 war tract in the year of Vienna's siege frames Turks as apocalyptic enemy while splitting crusade theology from imperial war. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1529-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He argued that fighting the Ottoman advance was the emperor's temporal duty while rejecting a papal crusade. The welfare reading is worsening, through political-polarization, FDI strengthening at weight 0.3 direction 1. A 1529 war tract in the year of Vienna's siege frames Turks as apocalyptic enemy while splitting crusade theology from imperial war. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1529-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He argued that fighting the Ottoman advance was the emperor's temporal duty while rejecting a papal crusade. The welfare reading is worsening, through political-polarization, FDI strengthening at weight 0.3 direction 1. A 1529 war tract in the year of Vienna's siege frames Turks as apocalyptic enemy while splitting crusade theology from imperial war. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1529-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He argued that fighting the Ottoman advance was the emperor's temporal duty while rejecting a papal crusade. The welfare reading is worsening, through political-polarization, FDI strengthening at weight 0.3 direction 1. A 1529 war tract in the year of Vienna's siege frames Turks as apocalyptic enemy while splitting crusade theology from imperial war. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1529-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He argued that fighting the Ottoman advance was the emperor's temporal duty while rejecting a papal crusade. The welfare reading is worsening, through political-polarization, FDI strengthening at weight 0.3 direction 1. A 1529 war tract in the year of Vienna's siege frames Turks as apocalyptic enemy while splitting crusade theology from imperial war. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1529-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He argued that fighting the Ottoman advance was the emperor's temporal duty while rejecting a papal crusade. The welfare reading is worsening, through political-polarization, FDI strengthening at weight 0.3 direction 1. A 1529 war tract in the year of Vienna's siege frames Turks as apocalyptic enemy while splitting crusade theology from imperial war. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1529-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He argued that fighting the Ottoman advance was the emperor's temporal duty while rejecting a papal crusade. The welfare reading is worsening, through political-polarization, FDI strengthening at weight 0.3 direction 1. A 1529 war tract in the year of Vienna's siege frames Turks as apocalyptic enemy while splitting crusade theology from imperial war. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1529-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He argued that fighting the Ottoman advance was the emperor's temporal duty while rejecting a papal crusade. The welfare reading is worsening, through political-polarization, FDI strengthening at weight 0.3 direction 1. A 1529 war tract in the year of Vienna's siege frames Turks as apocalyptic enemy while splitting crusade theology from imperial war. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

## People

- Martin Luther: https://factrail.ai/people/martin-luther

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.luther.de/en/
- https://ccel.org/ccel/luther

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/luther-on-war-against-turks-1529