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Spalatin had never cared for theology, and, although a priest and a preacher, had been a mere humanist.

How he first became acquainted with Luther is impossible to say — probably at Wittenberg — but the reformer from the first exercised a great power over him, and became his chief counsellor in all moral and religious matters.

His letters to Luther have been lost, but Luther's answers remain, and are extremely interesting.

There is scarcely any fact in the opening history of the Reformation which is not connected in some way with Spalatin's name.

He read Luther's writings to the elector, and translated for his benefit those in Latin into German.