Nikolaus von Amsdorf

Nikolaus von Amsdorf (born December 3, 1483, Torgau, Saxony [Germany]—died May 14, 1565, Eisenach) was a Protestant Reformer and major supporter of Martin Luther. Educated at Leipzig and then at Wittenberg, where he became a theology professor in 1511, Amsdorf attended the Leipzig debate with Luther in 1519 and the Diet of Worms two years later, where he participated in the plan to protect Luther from his detractors by pretending to kidnap him while actually...