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{{Infobox person|name=Thomas Müntzer|image=Thomas Müntzer.png|image_size=200|birth_date=c. 1489|birth_place=Stolberg, [[Holy Roman Empire]]|death_date=27 May 1525|death_place=Mühlhausen, Holy Roman Empire|nationality=German|death_cause=Execution}} | {{Infobox person|name=Thomas Müntzer|image=Thomas Müntzer.png|image_size=200|birth_date=c. 1489|birth_place=Stolberg, [[Holy Roman Empire]]|death_date=27 May 1525|death_place=Mühlhausen, Holy Roman Empire|nationality=German|death_cause=Execution}} | ||
'''Thomas Müntzer''' (1489 – 27 May 1525) was a German preacher and revolutionary during the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] | '''Thomas Müntzer''' (1489 – 27 May 1525) was a German preacher and revolutionary during the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]].<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=[[Friedrich Engels]]|year=1850|title=The Peasant War in Germany|chapter=The Main Opposition Groups and their Programmes; Luther and Muenzer|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/ch02.htm|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/index.htm}}</ref> | ||
== Early life == | == Early life == | ||
Müntzer was born in Stolberg in 1498. His father died from a scaffold because of the negligence of the Count of Stolberg. When he was 14, he organized a secret anti-[[Catholicism|Catholic]] group at the Halle school. After preaching in his neighborhood, he moved to Zwickau in 1520 and became an evangelical preacher.<ref name=":0" /> | Müntzer was born in Stolberg in 1498. His father died from a scaffold because of the negligence of the Count of Stolberg. When he was 14, he organized a secret anti-[[Catholicism|Catholic]] group at the Halle school. After preaching in his neighborhood, he moved to Zwickau in 1520 and became an evangelical preacher.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
== | == Exile == | ||
After Müntzer defended the Anabaptists, the city council expelled them from Zwickau, and Müntzer went to Prague. He tried to join the remnants of the Hussites but then fled Bohemia for Allstedt in Thuringia. He refused to preach in Latin and used a German translation of the Bible.<ref name=":0" /> | After Müntzer defended the Anabaptists, the city council expelled them from Zwickau, and Müntzer went to Prague. He tried to join the remnants of the Hussites but then fled Bohemia for Allstedt in Thuringia. He refused to preach in Latin and used a German translation of the Bible.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||