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Born c.1495 • Germany
Died November 27, 1527 • Basel • Switzerland
Role In Reformation
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
Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
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
Agricola, Johann
Johann Agricola
German theologian
Chemnitz, Martin
Martin Chemnitz
German theologian
Osiander, Andreas
Andreas Osiander
German theologian
Nikolaus von Amsdorf, lithograph, 1820, after a 16th-century engraving.
Nikolaus von Amsdorf
German theologian
Joachim Camerarius
German scholar and theologian
Melchior Hofmann
German mystic
Balthasar Hubmaier
German Anabaptist leader
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli
Swiss religious leader
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
English theologian
Erastus, portrait by Tobias Stimmer, 1582; in the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switz.
Thomas Erastus
Swiss physician and theologian
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Matthias Flacius Illyricus
European religious reformer
Heinrich Bullinger
Heinrich Bullinger
Swiss religious reformer