Huldrych Zwingli
1484 CE–1531 CE · Wildhaus
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) was the leading Reformer of Zurich and the founder of the Reformed Protestant tradition in Switzerland. Trained in humanist scholarship and influenced by Erasmus, he began his reforming work in Zurich in 1519, overhauling the city's church through scripture-based preaching, the abolition of the Mass, and civic-ecclesiastical cooperation. He is best known theologically for his symbolic or "memorialism" interpretation of the Eucharist — holding that the bread and wine are signs that commemorate Christ's body and blood rather than conveying his physical presence — a position that brought him into sharp conflict with Luther at the Marburg Colloquy of 1529, where the two Reformers famously failed to reach agreement. Zwingli died on the battlefield at Kappel am Albis in 1531 while serving as a field chaplain during the Second Kappel War, a death that shocked the Reformed world and left his colleague Heinrich Bullinger to consolidate his legacy.
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Born on 1 January 1484 in Wildhaus in the Toggenburg valley of the Canton of St. Gallen.
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Wildhaus, a village in the Toggenburg of the canton of St Gallen, Switzerland. It was the birthplace of the reformer Huldrych Zwingli (1484).
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