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Also Known As Melchior Hoffmann
Born c.1495 • Schwäbisch Hall • Germany
Died 1543 or 1544 • Strasbourg • France
Subjects Of Study eschatology • mysticism
Role In Reformation
Schwenckfeld, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1556; in the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
German theologian
Sebastian Franck
German theologian
Balthasar Hubmaier
German Anabaptist leader
Hans Denck
German religious leader
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon
German theologian
Martin Bucer, medal by Friedrich Hagenauer, 1543; in the Archives and Library of the City of Strasbourg.
Martin Bucer
Protestant religious reformer
Thomas Müntzer
Thomas Müntzer
German religious reformer
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
German mystic
Meister Eckhart
German theologian and mystic
Menno Simons, engraving by Christopher van Sichem, 1605–08.
Menno Simons
Dutch priest
Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
John Oecolampadius
Johann Oecolampadius
German humanist
Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms
German rabbi
Sibyl of the Rhine
St. Hildegard
German mystic
Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerick
German nun
Judah ben Samuel
German Jewish mystic
David Joris
Belgian religious leader
Agricola, Johann
Johann Agricola
German theologian
Georg Spalatin
Bavarian humanist