The German language was created by?

Answer 1

Like most languages no one person created it but if you want to talk about Modern German (Hoch Deutsch) specifically there were some key people in its modern day development.

Modern German most commonly resembles the dialects of central and southern Germany. There is another dialect in the north that is closer to Danish but all the German peoples speak (along with their local dialects) Hochdeutsch - Modern Standard German.

I would say the most important 2 people would have to be Martin Luther and Goethe.

Martin Luther created the German version of The Bible @ a time when there was no common German language. He wanted to make a bible that everyone in the German speaking realm could read and so by translating the bible he made a single unified German language that was intelligible between most of the dialects.

Goethe is like the William Shakespeare of the German speaking world (except he was a real person). He wrote many works with vivid use of Martin Luthers German. Through his works he showed how the German language could be strectched and bent to form many different ideas in many different ways.