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Ludwig Haetzer (also Ludwig Hetzer, Ludwig Hätzer and sometimes Ludwig Hatzer) (1500 – 4 February 1529) was an
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Ludwig Hetzer at Britanica
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Ludwig Haetzer (also Ludwig Hetzer, Ludwig Hätzer and sometimes Ludwig Hatzer) (1500 – 4 February 1529) was an Anabaptist
Anabaptism (from New Latin language, Neo-Latin , from the Greek language, Greek : 're-' and 'baptism', german: Täufer, earlier also )Since the middle of the 20th century, the German-speaking world no longer uses the term (translation: "Re- ...
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Born in Bischofszell, Thurgau, Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, he wrote an article against the uses of images in worship, translated some Latin
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evangelical texts regarding the conversion of Jews, and, together with Hans Denck, he translated the prophets of the Bible
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into German
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in 1528. Haetzer also wrote a booklet discouraging the consumption of alcohol
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. He regarded Jesus
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as a leader and teacher only; not divine
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and not an object of worship, therefore an anti-trinitarian
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and possibly a Unitarian.J. F. Gerhard Goeters, ''J. F. Ludwig Hätzer (ca. 1500 bis 1529), Spiritualist und Antitrinitarier, eine Randfigur der frühen Täuferbewegung'' (Gütersloh, 1957).
Haetzer attended the Martyrs' Synod in Augsburg
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. He was executed for his Anabaptist
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radicalism by beheading
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in Konstanz
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, Germany, on 4 February 1529, technically for adultery.
See also
* George Blaurock * Conrad Grebel * Balthasar Hubmaier *Jacob Kautz Jacob Kautz (also Jakob Kautz) (c. 1500 – c. 1532) was an Anabaptist who posted seven theses to the door of the Worms Cathedral in 1527. He undermined the authority of the church with accusations of idolatry. In essence, he took Martin Luther's pr ...
* Felix Manz
*Adam Pastor Adam Pastor (d. 1560s) was born Roelof Martens or Martin, at Dörpen, Westphalia, and was a Catholic priest at Aschendorf till 1533 when he joined the peaceful wing of the Anabaptists. At the Anabaptist conference in Goch in 1547, at which Menno Si ...
References
External links
Haetzer, Ludwig (1500-1529)
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Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
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Ludwig Hetzer at Britanica
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