Katharina von Bora with the family of Philipp Reichenbach, the city clerk of Wittenberg. Later she went to the home of Lucas Cranach the Elder and his wife, Barbara. Katharina had a number of suitors, including Wittenberg University alumnus Jerome (Hieronymus) Baumgärtner (1498–1565) of Nuremberg and a pastor, Kaspar Glatz of Orlamünde. None of the proposed matches resulted in marriage. She told Luther’s friend and fellow reformer, Nikolaus von Amsdorf, that she would be willing to marry only Luther or von Amsdorf himself. Martin Luther, and many of his friends as well, were at first unsure of whether he should even be married.
Catharine Johnston December 1831 she was made an "Extraordinary member" of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. Her drawings assisted other notable scientists to further their research. In 1853 Philip Henry Gosse named the marine species "Tomopteris (Johnstonella) catharina" in her honor stating: Catharine Johnston Catharine Johnston, Charles, (1794–1871) was an English botanical illustrator who had a species of marine animal named in her honour. Johnston was born in 1794 and was the daughter of William Claudius Charles, a surgeon who had worked in the West Indies. On 23 November 1819 she married Dr George Johnston, a famous naturalist, and moved to Berwick-on-Tweed where