Martin Luther, church reformer, Father of Protestantism, theological works guided those now known as Lutherans.
He seems not to have taken seriously the demands made by the church reformers, and which would quickly grow to establish itself as the Protestant Reformation.
Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church.
A great contribution to this was made by Patriarch Nikon, a bright personality and outstanding church reformer.
His father George Heton was prominent in the London commercial world and as a church reformer.
John Bold, a young surgeon, a zealous church reformer.
Many hymns were written by Swedish church reformers and several by Martin Luther were translated.
Huldrych Zwingli, an influential church reformer, refused the worship of God in the form of pictures as idolatry.
"I think of him in terms of Jan Hus," said a Czechoslovak journalist, referring to the 15th-century church reformer who remains a national hero.
But such remarks were commonplace and were made by ardent church reformers as often as by anyone else.