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Also Known As Joachim von Watt
Born c.1484 • Sankt Gallen • Switzerland
Died April 6, 1551 • Sankt Gallen • Switzerland
Role In Reformation
Sebastian Hofmeister
Swiss religious reformer
Leo Jud, engraving
Leo Jud
Swiss religious reformer
Johannes Stumpf
Swiss theologian
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Justus Lipsius, oil painting by an unknown artist, 1585; in the Musee Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
Justus Lipsius
Belgian scholar
Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
John Oecolampadius
Johann Oecolampadius
German humanist
Johann Rudolf Wyss
Swiss writer and editor
Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli
Swiss religious leader
Erastus, portrait by Tobias Stimmer, 1582; in the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switz.
Thomas Erastus
Swiss physician and theologian
Heinrich Bullinger
Heinrich Bullinger
Swiss religious reformer
Bertold Haller
Swiss religious reformer
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon
German theologian
Martial
Roman poet
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar