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Andreas Castelberger

Founded the School of Heretics Bible Study

He was also known as limping Andreas or Andreas on the Crucks because of his disability

Felix Manz

Became the first Anabaptist martyr (at protestant hands)

His own former religious allies had him executed by drowning in the Limmat River

Balthasar Hubmaier

Highly educated Catholic priest turned Anabaptist leader

Paused his studies due to financial issues and briefly became a schoolteacher

Ulrich Zwingli

Defended the affair of sausages

taught sola scriptura

argued for a symbolic view of the Eucharist

stabbed to death by Captain Fuckinger at the Battle of Kappel

Andreas Bodenstein Von Karlstadt

originally allies with luther but then attacked his theology

became an ally of Zwingli

her refused to differentiate clerics and the paralyzed or burghers by letting his tonsure grow over and wearing secular clothing

Caspar Schwenckfeld

his focus on the middle way and focusing on authentic christianity not on religious images

he went into exile voluntarily ofr 30 years

Thomas Muntzer

believed embodied faith should lead a believer to acts of justice for those marginalized to bring about God’s new and transformed kingdom

luther once called him the Devil, a Ravening Wolf, and a False Prophet who stirred up murder, rebellion, and bloodshed

Charles V

Waged war against the Frenc and Ottoman Empire, fought protestantism, and instituted the conquest of South America

spoke french, dutch, spanish, german, italian, and could read latin