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Who is Martin Luther from The World's Great Speeches and what is their importance?
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Martin Luther, a German, is credited with developing the teachings that would become the basis of the Protestant Reformation; he is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1520. Luther's speech, "Before the Diet of Worms," is presented by then Emperor Charles V who sits in judgment of Luther for his "crime" of founding the Protestant movement.
The World's Great Speeches