Elsbeth Hügline

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Elsbeth Hügline is drowned in the Danube, detail of Hubmaier's portrait by Christoffel van Sichem, 1606

Elsbeth Hüg (e) line (* around 1480 in Reichenau ; † March 13, 1528 in Vienna ) was a protagonist and martyr of the early Anabaptist movement .

Life

Elsbeth Hügline was the daughter of a miller on the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance . It is unclear whether Elsbeth Hügline was resident in Waldshut before she arrived or whether she first came to the city attracted by the Reformation there. On January 13, 1525, she married the Reformed pastor of the upper church there, Balthasar Hubmaier, in Waldshut . Together with her husband she confessed to the Anabaptist Movement at Easter 1525 and was baptized with him and 60 other citizens of the city by Wilhelm Reublin according to the new teaching.

At the end of 1525, she and her husband fled to Zurich before Waldshut was imminent and was imprisoned there with him at the instigation of the Zurich council and Zwingli . After Hubmaier's revocation, the couple was able to leave Zurich in April 1526. The couple reached Nikolsburg in Moravia via Constance and Augsburg , where they helped establish an Anabaptist community.

After Ferdinand I was crowned King of Bohemia on February 24, 1527, the situation in Moravia, which was friendly to the Reformation and Anabaptists, changed. In July 1527, on Ferdinand's orders, the couple were arrested on charges of high treason and taken to Kreuzenstein Castle near Vienna. After lengthy interrogations and making a self-accusation, Balthasar Hubmaier was burned at the stake at the Stubentor in Vienna on March 10, 1528 . Elsbeth Hügline, who stood by her husband and her confession until the execution, was thrown from the middle bridge into the Danube on March 13, 1528 in Vienna with a millstone tied around her neck and drowned.

Christening succession

The line of baptismal succession goes back to Elsbeth Hügline via Wilhelm Reublin (January 1525), Jörg Blaurock (January 1525) to Konrad Grebel (January 1525). The dates in brackets indicate the respective baptism date. Evidence of this can be found in the biography articles of the persons mentioned.

literature

  • Christian Hege, Christian Neff: Mennonite Lexicon . Frankfurt, Weierhof 1913-1967, Volume II, p. 363

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Schwarz, Wolfgang Beinert: Reformation and Imperial City: Protestant Life in Regensburg, Universitätsverlag, 1994, p. 90
  2. ↑ Archive for the history of the Reformation: Vol. 102 2011, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, p. 22
  3. ↑ Christof Windhorst: Anabaptist understanding of baptism: Balthasar Hubmaier's teaching between traditional and Reformation theology, Brill Archive, 1976, p. 92, footnote 12
  4. ↑ Neff, Christian. "Hügeline, Elsbeth (d. 1528)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 8 Dec 2013
personal data
SURNAME Hügline, Elsbeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hilline, Elsbeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German protagonist of Anabaptism
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenau
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1528
Place of death Vienna