The first translation of the complete Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew into German was not made by the Protestant Martin Luther, but by the Anabaptists Ludwig Hetzer and Hans Denck. Historian Ludwig Keller, wrote in 1914, “The fact is by no means yet sufficiently recognized, that the first complete Bible translated of the Reformation which we possess, namely, the so-called Worms Bible, of the year 1529, had its origin from the Baptists. Hetzer and Denck were highly educated in both the Biblical languages, but also in the truth of those scriptures. The introduction to their first edition of the Prophets is dated April 13, 1527. Even though Luther became a relentless enemy of the Baptists, he acknowledged in a private letter written on May 4th that the Worms edition was worthy of “unlimited praise,” and when Luther eventually published his own German edition of the Bible, he in many places plagiarized the Baptist’s earlier work.
– Source: “This Day in Baptist History III,” David Cummins