William Tyndale Research Paper

Have you ever heard of someone who had a burning passion to complete something so important to themselves that they were willing to risk their own life to complete it? A catholic baby was born in the October of 1494, in Gloucestershire, UK(United Kingdom). This baby's name was William Tyndale. He had a regular life, a simple and nothing out of the ordinary lifestyle. His existence had been ignored like most other people, so not much is known about his early life except that he had graduated from Oxford in 1512, after studying at Magdalen College. He was a priest who was against the Latin Bible. He knew that he had a great talent for languages and following his disgust for the Latin Bible it led him to translate the whole Bible. He is commemorated by a monument that stands at his birthplace. You can not really be sure that things would have been too different without his existence, someone else could have translated the Bible instead, but at a later time. His importance only stands upon him being the first one to translate a printed Bible and be …show more content…
He was also the brother of Richard Tyndall, John Tyndall, and Edward Tyndale, each of which has owned churches. He was the half brother of Sir William Tyndale and Jane Blennerassett. William Tyndale's whole occupation was the translation of the English Bible, specifically he was a Bible translator. There are also many more interesting facts about William Tyndale's life, for example when studying he earned a Master of Arts degree in 1515. William a Tyndale was greatly influenced by the works and ideas of John Colet and Desiderius Erasmus. John Colet was an English scholar and Renaissance humanist and a main member of the “Worshipful Company of Mercers”. Desiderius Erasmus was a catholic Dutch Renaissance humanist whose ideas were greatly influential, and he is now called “the crowning glory of the Christian