When Martin Franz Julius Luther was born on 16 December 1895, in Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany, his father, Dedo Martin Luther, was 36 and his mother, Paula von Schönberg, was 27. He married Irmgard Johanna Luise Zinkernagel on 20 April 1920, in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 31 May 1945, in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 49.
German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements liud ‘people, tribe’ or hlūd ‘clamoring, famous’, + heri, hari ‘army’.
English: metonymic occupational name from Middle English luter, leuter ‘lute player’ (Old French leuteor, luthier). Compare Luter .
Americanized form of Slovenian Lutar or Luthar: from a personal name of ancient Germanic origin (see 1 above).
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