The New Testament was first published in 1522 and the complete Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, in 1534. This project absorbed Luther’s later years. Thanks to the recently invented printing press, the result was widely disseminated and contributed significantly to the development of today’s modern High German language.
Luther was born in Eisleben in 1483 and was baptised a Roman Catholic. He studied at the University of Erfurt, later describing it as ‘a beerhouse and a whorehouse’, even though the discipline was such that he was made to get up every day at 4.00am. He was awarded a BA and MA from…
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William Tyndale, born around 1494 in Lollard Gloucestershire, translated the Bible into English during the Reformation and was martyred for it. He studied at Oxford…
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Born in 849 the fifth son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, Alfred became king in 871 following the reigns of three of his brothers. From…
Philip Melanchthon (the Greek version of his German surname Schwartzerdt) was a German Protestant Reformer, expert in biblical Greek, colleague of Martin Luther, and the…
