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Zwingli, Ulrich
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Zwingli, Ulrich (1484–1531)

Swiss Protestant reformer. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1506, but by 1519 was a Reformer and led the Reformation in Switzerland with his insistence on the sole authority of the Scriptures. He was killed in a skirmish at Kappel during a war against the cantons that had not accepted the Reformation.



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Not so: even earlier they were speaking German, in Zurich under Ulrich Zwingli, not to mention Strassburg (as Strasbourg was then) under Martin Bucer.
At the gathering, Ulrich Zwingli, the founder of Protestantism in German Switzerland and the first Reformed theologian, argued that the Eucharist is not a reenactment of Christ's sacrifice but a memorial of that sacrifice.
His struggle with the Habsburgs led to into an alliance with Ulrich Zwingli and produced two works that mark Gaismair as one of the most gifted political and military thinkers of the sixteenth century.
 
 
 
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