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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- Pope Julius II· 1443 CE–1513 CE
- Girolamo Savonarola· 1452 CE–1498 CE
- Pope Adrian VI· 1459 CE–1523 CE
- Desiderius Erasmus· 1466 CE–1536 CE
- Pope Paul III· 1468 CE–1549 CE
- Pope Leo X· 1475 CE–1521 CE
- Pope Paul IV· 1476 CE–1559 CE
- Pope Clement VII· 1478 CE–1534 CE
- Martin Luther· 1483 CE–1546 CE
- Bartolomé de las Casas· 1484 CE–1566 CE
- Pope Julius III· 1487 CE–1555 CE
- Thomas Müntzer· 1489 CE–1525 CE
- Thomas Cranmer· 1489 CE–1556 CE
- Martin Bucer· 1491 CE–1551 CE
- Ignatius of Loyola· 1491 CE–1556 CE
- William Tyndale· 1494 CE–1536 CE
- Menno Simons· 1496 CE–1561 CE
- Philip Melanchthon· 1497 CE–1560 CE
- Conrad Grebel· 1498 CE–1526 CE
- Pope Pius IV· 1499 CE–1565 CE
- Pope Marcellus II· 1501 CE–1555 CE
- Pope St. Pius V· 1504 CE–1572 CE
- Francis Xavier· 1506 CE–1552 CE
- John Calvin· 1509 CE–1564 CE
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- Afonso I of Kongo· –1543 CE
- Babur· 1483 CE–1530 CE
- Vasili III· 1479 CE–1533 CE
- Manco Inca Yupanqui· –1544 CE
- Shah Ismail I· 1487 CE–1524 CE
- Cuauhtémoc· 1495 CE–1525 CE
- Askia Muhammad I· –1538 CE
- Cacamatzin· 1483 CE–1520 CE
- Huáscar· 1495 CE–1532 CE
- Krishnadevaraya· 1471 CE–1529 CE
- Sher Shah Suri· 1486 CE–1545 CE
- Cuitláhuac· 1476 CE–1520 CE
- Atahualpa· –1533 CE
- Henry VIII· 1491 CE–1547 CE
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