William Tindale
n : English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of
the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for
the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical
opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the
stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536) [syn: Tyndale,
William Tyndale, Tindale, Tindal, William Tindal]