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Also Known As Joachim von Watt
Born c.1484 • Sankt Gallen • Switzerland
Died April 6, 1551 • Sankt Gallen • Switzerland
Role In Reformation
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Sebastian Hofmeister
Swiss religious reformer
Leo Jud, engraving
Leo Jud
Swiss religious reformer
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Johannes Stumpf
Swiss theologian
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Justus Lipsius, oil painting by an unknown artist, 1585; in the Musee Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
Justus Lipsius
Belgian scholar
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Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
John Oecolampadius
Johann Oecolampadius
German humanist
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Johann Rudolf Wyss
Swiss writer and editor
Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli
Swiss religious leader
Erastus, portrait by Tobias Stimmer, 1582; in the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switz.
Thomas Erastus
Swiss physician and theologian
Heinrich Bullinger
Heinrich Bullinger
Swiss religious reformer
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Bertold Haller
Swiss religious reformer
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.
Petrarch
Italian poet
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon
German theologian
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Martial
Roman poet
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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar