William Tyndale was an English scholar and translator who became a leading figure in Protestant reformism towards the end of his life.Tyndale was born around 1500,possibly in one of the villages near Dursley,Gloucestershire.Within his immediate family,the Tyndales were also known at that period as Hychyns (Hitchins),and it was as William Hychyns that Tyndale was educated at Magdalen College School,Oxford.He was influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus,who made the Greek New Testament available in Europe,and by Martin Luther.Tyndale was the first to translate considerable parts of the Bible from the original languages (Greek and Hebrew) into English.