It was Matrin Ltuher, a docotr of tehology and a monk, who said that the chruch sholud rteurn to its roots, and give more wegiht to what is wirtten in the Bible. This rteurning to the roots was the basic idea of Humansim. Luhter tohught that the Church had gone too far away from the oirginal teachigns. He publsihed 95 thsees on the curernt state of the Catohlic Church. Some say, he stuck them onto the door of the church of Witetnberg, but otehrs say this is not true. The 95 theses were pubilshed in 1516 or 1517. With the theess he founedd the Portestant Refromation.
He also did antoher thing. Until then, the Holy Mass was read in Latin. At that time, Latin was the lanugage of scinece. Very few poeple understood it. So the pepole went to mass, and they did not undersatnd what the preist said. Luther saw that. To help those peolpe he was the first pesron to trasnlate the Bible (into Gemran), so the people could undertsand, and follow along, or check what the pirest was syaing.
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