Oswald Glait (

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1490 –

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1546) was a German Anabaptist and

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. Originally a follower of

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, in 1527 in the

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dispute he sided with the pacifist position of

Hans Hut Hans Hut (c. 14906 December 1527) was a very active Anabaptist in southern Germany and Austria. Life Hut was born in Haina near Römhild, South Thuringia, and became a travelling bookseller. Hut was for some years sacristan in Bibra to the knigh ...

. He then appears in Silesia, along with Andreas Fischer, as a leader of an Anabaptist group there. He penned a booklet, Vom Sabbat, advocating the (re)institution of Saturday/Sabbath keeping as a Christian practice, thus restoring what Glaidt argued had been the original practice of the Apostolic church of the New Testament. There is also good evidence in this writing (lost, but carefully reconstructed by Daniel Liechty based on

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's refutation of it) that Glaidt strongly believed that Christ's

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was to occur in the very near future (this shows the extent of Hans Hut's influence on Glaidt at this time). Glaidt appears later in the sources attached to the nascent Hutterite group in Moravia. He was arrested and imprisoned in Vienna in 1545, then taken out at night and drowned in autumn 1546.Oswald Glaidt: Daniel Liechty - Bibliotheca dissidentium - 1989.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Glait, Oswald 1546 deaths German Anabaptists 1490 births 16th-century Anabaptists

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