David Joris

David Joris (born 1501/02, Ghent or Bruges, Flanders [now in Belgium]—died August 25, 1556, Basel, Switz.) was a religious reformer, a controversial and eccentric member of the Anabaptist movement. He founded the Davidists, or Jorists, who viewed Joris as a prophet and whose internal dissension led—three years after his death—to the sensational cremation of his body after his posthumous conviction as a heretic. A painter of stained glass by trade, Joris settled in Delft (now...