Andreas Karlstadt had received his doctorate of…
September 1516 CE
Andreas Karlstadt had received his doctorate of theology in 1510 from the University of Wittenberg.
Previously, Karlstadt had been educated at Erfurt and in Cologne.
In the same year in which Karlstadt received his doctorate he became archdeacon and the chair of the theology department.
In 1511 he became chancellor of Wittenberg University, and in 1512 had awarded Martin Luther his doctorate.
From 1515–16, he studies in Rome, where he has obtained the double degree in canon and civil law (utriusque juris) at the Sapienza university.
Before 1515, Karlstadt had been a proponent of a modified scholasticism.
He was a "secular" cleric with no official ties to any monastic order.
His beliefs had been challenged during his stay in Rome, where he alleges he saw large-scale corruption in the Roman Catholic Church, and in a document dated September 16, 1516 he writes a series of one hundred and fifty-one theses.
(These should not be confused with Luther's ninety-five theses (1517) that attack indulgences.)