Gottfried Stralen

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Gottfried Stralen (also Strahl , * around 1500 in Geldern ; † February 1, 1535 in Brühl near Cologne) was a preacher during the Reformation .

Stralen is assigned to the Wassenberg predicants . He studied in Marburg . At the request of the preacher Bernd Rothmann , he was sent from there by the Hessian Landgrave Philipp together with Peter Wertheim to Münster , where he became a preacher at the Überwasserkirche . On August 16, 1532 he was a co-signer of a draft reform of the Lord's Supper . He also supported the rejection of infant baptism and was baptized as an adult , which was viewed as rebaptism . He was co-editor of the Confessions of both Sacraments . When messengers were sent out in all directions to support Münster in October 1534, he went to Warendorf with Johann Klopreis and four other preachers to do missionary work in the city. In fact, the people of Warendorf were enthusiastic about the Anabaptist movement . But that called on Bishop Franz von Waldeck , who set out to subdue Warendorf. Stralen and his friend Klopreis were captured and handed over to the Archbishop of Cologne . Both were sentenced to death and died on February 1, 1535 in Brühl at the stake .

literature

  • Heinrich-August Erhard: History of Münster. Munster 1837
  • Hermann von Kerssenbroick: History of the Anabaptists at Münster in Westphalia. o. O. 1771.

swell

  1. ↑ a b Stralen, Gottfried (d. 1535). In: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved January 9, 2015 . In: gameo.org
  2. ↑ see: J. Engelhardt: Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte Volume 4. Erlangen 1834. P. 224.
  3. ↑ see: Heinrich-August Erhard: Geschichte Münsters. Münster 1837. p. 320.
  4. ↑ see: Bernhardt Rothmann: Confessions van beyden sacraments See Döpe unde Nachtmaele the predicanten tho ... Munster . 1533, limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Stralen, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shine, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baptist preacher in Munster
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Funds
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1535
Place of death Brühl near Cologne