Quotes by Martin Luther

Martin Luther was an Augustinian friar and professor of theology who objected in 1517 to the sale of indulgences, and found the argument had escaped him within weeks thanks to the printing press. Excommunicated and outlawed, he translated the Bible into a German that helped standardise the language, married a former nun, and split Western Christianity. He also wrote viciously against Jews in old age, a text later regimes were glad to reprint.