# Luther publishes Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague

Date: 1527

## The fact

In 1527, during Wittenberg's plague, [Luther](/people/martin-luther) wrote Ob man vor dem Sterben fliehen möge. He stayed in the city. The treatise tells pastors and public servants to remain and allows others to flee.

## Context

Not 1593 London. A Saxon town epidemic. Katharina and the household are in the house that took in the sick.

## Evidence and sources

1527 treatise and Wittenberg plague notes. Establishes the book and his remaining. Not a mortality table. Wikipedia is not used as a causal source.

## Significance

[Pandemic-preparedness](/drivers/pandemic-preparedness) path: who must stay. Infectious-disease is the weather, not his invention.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1527 treatise and that he remained. Not established: a measured death-rate effect. Confidence high on the text, medium on outcomes.

The event remains dated 1527-11-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He stayed in Wittenberg during the 1527 plague and wrote that pastors and public officers should remain while others may flee. The welfare reading is improving, through infectious-disease-transmission, FDI strengthening at weight 0.4 direction 1. A printed duty-to-remain for clergy and magistrates during plague is a public-health staffing argument, not a germ theory. 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 1527-11-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He stayed in Wittenberg during the 1527 plague and wrote that pastors and public officers should remain while others may flee. The welfare reading is improving, through infectious-disease-transmission, FDI strengthening at weight 0.4 direction 1. A printed duty-to-remain for clergy and magistrates during plague is a public-health staffing argument, not a germ theory. 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 1527-11-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He stayed in Wittenberg during the 1527 plague and wrote that pastors and public officers should remain while others may flee. The welfare reading is improving, through infectious-disease-transmission, FDI strengthening at weight 0.4 direction 1. A printed duty-to-remain for clergy and magistrates during plague is a public-health staffing argument, not a germ theory. 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 1527-11-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He stayed in Wittenberg during the 1527 plague and wrote that pastors and public officers should remain while others may flee. The welfare reading is improving, through infectious-disease-transmission, FDI strengthening at weight 0.4 direction 1. A printed duty-to-remain for clergy and magistrates during plague is a public-health staffing argument, not a germ theory. 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 1527-11-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He stayed in Wittenberg during the 1527 plague and wrote that pastors and public officers should remain while others may flee. The welfare reading is improving, through infectious-disease-transmission, FDI strengthening at weight 0.4 direction 1. A printed duty-to-remain for clergy and magistrates during plague is a public-health staffing argument, not a germ theory. 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 1527-11-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He stayed in Wittenberg during the 1527 plague and wrote that pastors and public officers should remain while others may flee. The welfare reading is improving, through infectious-disease-transmission, FDI strengthening at weight 0.4 direction 1. A printed duty-to-remain for clergy and magistrates during plague is a public-health staffing argument, not a germ theory. 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 1527-11-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He stayed in Wittenberg during the 1527 plague and wrote that pastors and public officers should remain while others may flee. The welfare reading is improving, through infectious-disease-transmission, FDI strengthening at weight 0.4 direction 1. A printed duty-to-remain for clergy and magistrates during plague is a public-health staffing argument, not a germ theory. 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 1527-11-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He stayed in Wittenberg during the 1527 plague and wrote that pastors and public officers should remain while others may flee. The welfare reading is improving, through infectious-disease-transmission, FDI strengthening at weight 0.4 direction 1. A printed duty-to-remain for clergy and magistrates during plague is a public-health staffing argument, not a germ theory. 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

- Pandemic Preparedness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/pandemic-preparedness
- Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission

## Sources

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

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/luther-whether-one-may-flee-plague-1527