Hans Haslibacher

Illustration to the Haslibacher song by Rudolf Münger

Hans Haslibacher (* 1500 in Sumiswald ; † October 20, 1571 in Bern ) was a martyr of the Bernese Anabaptists .

Life

Haslibacher joined the Reformation Anabaptist movement in 1532 and worked as an Anabaptist preacher in Sumiswald in the Emmental . As an influential Anabaptist teacher, he took part in the Bernese Anabaptist disputation in March 1538 and was finally beheaded in Bern in 1571 after repeated arrests and expulsions .

Haslibacher's beheading was the last execution of an Anabaptist in the canton of Bern; it is sung about by an anonymous poet in the 32 stanzas of the Haslibacher song , which was widely used in Anabaptist circles. It was also included in the Anabaptist songbook Ausbund in the 17th century . The Haslibacher song is also referred to in later editions of the Märtyrerspiegel .

literature

• Samuel Henri Geiser : The baptismal congregations , Courgenay 1971. pp. 195–199.

Web links

• Hanspeter Jecker: Haslibacher, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Text of the Haslibacher song
• Article Haslibacher, Hans in the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
• Hans Haslebacher . In: Sumiswald Baptist Museum.
• Swiss farmer from June 25, 2016: Where a martyr once lived .