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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
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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
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Sebastian Franck
German theologian
Johann Agricola
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
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Joachim Camerarius
German scholar and theologian
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Melchior Hofmann
German mystic
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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
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Matthias Flacius Illyricus
European religious reformer
Heinrich Bullinger
Heinrich Bullinger
Swiss religious reformer