Huldrych Zwingli

Swiss theologian and leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.

Huldrych Zwingli was a Swiss theologian and leader of the Reformation in Switzerland, born 1 January 1484 and died 11 October 1531.^[1]

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Quick Facts

Born: 1 January 1484
Birthplace: Wildhaus, Protectorate of the Princely Abbey of Saint Gall
Died: 11 October 1531
Place of death: Kappel, Canton of Zurich, Swiss Confederation
Education: University of Vienna, University of Basel
Occupation: Pastor; theologian
Spouse: Anna Reinhard, 2 April 1524
Era: Renaissance

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Life and work

Zwingli was born in Wildhaus, Switzerland, to a farming family and was the third of eleven children.^[2] He was ordained in Constance and celebrated his first Mass on 29 September 1506.^[3] He served as a pastor in Glarus for ten years, where he became involved in politics and initially supported the Roman See.^[3] He attacked the custom of fasting during Lent in 1522, leading to the Affair of the Sausages.^[4]

Zwingli secretly married Anna Reinhart in 1522, and their public wedding took place on 2 April 1524.^[5] Zwingli studied at the universities of Vienna and Basel, earning a Master of Arts degree in 1506.^[1][6] Pope Julius II granted Zwingli an annual pension as a reward for his backing.^[3]

What the cited sources add

The 1901 edition of Zwingli's selected works contains his Sixty-seven Articles, which he presented at the first Zurich disputation in 1523.^[7][8]

References

Wikipedia, "Huldrych Zwingli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Visser, "Prophet, Pastor, Protestant: The Work of Huldrych Zwingli after Five Hundred Years. Huldrych Zwingli, E. J. Furcha, and H. Wayne Pipkin; Huldrych, Zwingli. J. V. Pollet", The Sixteenth Century Journal, March 198 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Huldrych Zwingli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; "Katharina von Zimmern", frauen-und-reformation.de (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Huldrych Zwingli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Schaff, "History of the Christian Church, Vol. 8", Hendrickson Publishers Marketing, LLC, May 2011, p. 26 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Huldrych Zwingli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Denis Janz, "A Reformation reader: primary texts with introductions", Fortress Press, 2008, p. 183 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Huldrych Zwingli" (CC BY-SA 4.0) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Huldrych Zwingli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: . The word exclusus (expelled) was added to his matriculation entry. Gäbler notes that without a date and reason, it does not conform to what was customary at t; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
The Sixty-seven Articles are contained in Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli, Philadelphia, 1901, pp. 111–117. At Internet Archive. Accessed 13 March 2015.. facts only, no text reused. archive.org
Wikipedia, "Huldrych Zwingli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; The Sixty-seven Articles are contained in Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli, Philadelphia, 1901, pp. 111–117. At Internet Archive. Accessed 13 March 2015.; (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

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