Balthasar Hubmaier
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Balthasar Hubmaier 🇩🇪

Balthasar Hubmaier (Known as "Doctor Balthasar")
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Born c. 1480 🇩🇪 Friedberg, Bavaria
Passed Away Mar 10, 1528 Vienna, Archduchy of Austria
Lifespan 48 years old
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"Truth is unkillable; she may be captured, scourged, and nailed to the cross, but on the third day she will rise again."

Archival Overview

Pivotal Anabaptist theologian and former Catholic university rector who established believer's baptism in Waldshut and Nikolsburg and defended religious freedom in 'Heretics and Those Who Burn Them'.

Biographical Record

Balthasar Hubmaier (c. 1480–1528 CE) was pro-rector of the University of Ingolstadt and cathedral preacher in Regensburg before embracing the Reformation in Waldshut.

He became the intellectual leader of the Swiss-German Anabaptists, authoring the first European treatise demanding complete religious freedom for heretics and atheists without capital punishment.

Key Life Milestones

1524

Heretics and Those Who Burn Them Published

Authored the groundbreaking tract asserting that burning heretics is contrary to the spirit of Christ.

1526

Anabaptist Reformation in Nikolsburg (Mikulov)

Baptized over 6,000 adults in Moravia, turning Nikolsburg into a major refugee sanctuary for persecuted Christians.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Stubentor Execution Grounds
Vienna, Austria
GPS: 48.2075, 16.3789
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