Who published a Finnish translation of the New Testament?

• A. Martin Luther
• B. Mikael Agricola
• C. Johannes Gutenberg
• D. Desiderius Erasmus

Answer: (B)

Mikael Agricola is the figure who published a Finnish translation of the New Testament, a milestone that helped establish Finnish as a written language and supported literacy and religious reform in Finland. Agricola, a Finnish church reformer and scholar, created a Finnish writing system and produced the New Testament in Finnish in the mid-1500s. This work made the Bible accessible to ordinary Finnish speakers for the first time and laid the linguistic and literary groundwork that influenced future Finnish literature. The other names are known for different contributions: Luther for a German translation and Reformation influence, Gutenberg for inventing movable-type printing, and Erasmus for his Greek and Latin humanist scholarship, none of which produced the Finnish New Testament translation.