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Huldrych or Ulrich Zwingli [a] [b] (1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531) He was a Swiss Christian theologian, musician, and leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly center of Renaissance humanism.
Year Zwingli Luther History 1484: Zwingli's birth; 1507: Zwingli becomes a pastor in Glarus; 1516: Zwingli as a chaplain in Marignano; 1518: Luther's 95 theses; 1520: Zwingli becomes pastor of the Grossmünster
Anna Zwingli, also known as Anna Reinhart, (1484 - 1538, in Zürich), was a Protestant figure from 15th-century Zürich. After an initial marriage that ended in widowhood, she married her fellow citizen Huldrych Zwingli, and their marriage seemed relatively happy until his death in 1531. Following Zwingli's death, she took full responsibility ...
The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate, Mark Reust, and the population of Zürich in the 1520s. It led to significant changes in civil life and state matters in Zürich and spread to several other cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy.
1531 – Swiss Reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli was killed in battle when Zürich forces were attacked by Catholic cantons in response to a food blockade being applied by his alliance. several unreferenced paragraphs
Protestant Reformers were theologians whose careers, works and actions brought about the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.. In the context of the Reformation, Martin Luther was the first reformer, sharing his views publicly in 1517, followed by Andreas Karlstadt and Philip Melanchthon at Wittenberg, who promptly joined the new movement.
Iconoclasm in Zürich Stadelhofen, Bullinger chronicle of 1605. The Reformation in Zürich was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrates of the city of Zürich and the princess abbess Katharina von Zimmern of the Fraumünster Abbey, and the population of the city of Zürich and agriculture-oriented population of the present Canton of Zürich in the early ...
The Protestant canton of Zürich and Huldrych Zwingli, leader of the Swiss Reformation, feared a military action by Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria and his brother Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor against Swiss Protestants, and saw the five Catholic cantons of Central Switzerland (Lucerne, Schwyz, Uri, Zug and Unterwalden) as potential allies of ...