Martin Luther was a 16th-century German priest and the initiator of the Protestant Reformation, as well as a translator of the Bible into German. Luther’s work is to Nietzsche both exemplary of slave morality, further democratizing Christianity and modifying it for the interests of the herd man, and an impressive achievement of individual and intellectual work in its own right, with Nietzsche half-ironically referring to Luther’s Bible as the finest prose in the German language.