 The church was able to confront and control the Wycliffe Bible, but the next major translation effort would change the history of the Western Christian church down to the present day. Martin Luther, like Wycliffe, was also a professor. He saw the Roman church as corrupted and in need of reform. The Roman church sought to suppress Luther's reform initiatives and had placed him under official ban. Retiring to Wartburg Castle in Germany, Luther translated the Bible into German, and like Wycliffe, Luther went back to the original Greek texts as the basis of his work.