Luther had been ordained to the priesthood in 1507, and in 1508, von Staupitz, the first dean of the newly founded University of Wittenberg, had sent for Luther to teach theology.

Luther, having received a bachelor's degree in Biblical studies on March 9, 1508, and another bachelor's degree in the Sentences by Peter Lombard in 1509. is on October 19, 1512, awarded his Doctor of Theology and two days later is received into the senate of the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg, having been called to the position of Doctor in Bible.

He will spend the rest of his career here in this position.