MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546). /nGerman religious reformer. Luther as Hercules Germanicus, with the Pope suspended from his teeth as he holds inquisitor Jakob von Hochstraten by the neck. St. Thomas Aquinus, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Aristotle, and Peter Lombard are among the vanquished who lie before him. Woodcut, 1522, after Hans Holbein the Younger.