Heini Seiler

Heini Seiler (* before 1500 in the Aarau area ; † after July 8, 1529 in Bern ) was a Swiss Baptist .

Life

Heini Seiler's origins and career are unknown, but he was probably born in the Aarau area.

He became a hat maker and received his baptism of faith by Niklaus Guldin in Zollikon in the summer of 1525 , whereupon he was expelled from Aarau together with the hat maker Heini Steffan. He then accompanied the Aarau Anabaptist Hans Pfistermeyer in his teaching activities in the Swiss Plateau .

In 1528 he took part in the Bern Religious Discussion , was arrested in Bern in the early summer of 1529 and, as an Anabaptist, sentenced to death on July 8, 1529 and then executed .

He was one of the founders of Bernese Anabaptists and one of the first Anabaptists to be executed in Bern , along with the two Hans Hausmann (occasionally Hansmann), known as Seckler, and the carpenter Hans Träyer (before 1500–1529) from Lausen , who were executed on the same day .

Heini Seiler was married to Margreth from Sigriswil .

literature

Sources on the history of the Anabaptists III: Aargau - Bern - Solothurn , p. 208, 210. Zurich 2008, ISBN 3-290-17319-4 or ISBN 978-3-290-17319-7 .

Web links

Hanspeter Jecker: Heini Seiler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

^ Leonhard von Muralt, Martin Haas: Sources for the history of the Anabaptists in Switzerland . Theological Verlag Zürich, 1952, ISBN 978-3-290-17319-7 ( google.de [accessed June 17, 2020]).
↑ Albrecht Burkardt; Gerd Schwerhoff (ed.): Tribunal of the Barbarians? Germany and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Period. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Konstanz and Munich, 2012, accessed on June 17, 2020 .
^ Martin Haas: Profiles of early Anabaptism in the Bern area, Solothurn, Aargau. In: Zwingliana XXXVI. 2009, accessed June 17, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Seiler, Heini
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Baptist
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH	space Aarau
DATE OF DEATH	after July 8, 1529
Place of death	Bern

[1] Leonhard von Muralt, Martin Haas: Sources for the history of the Anabaptists in Switzerland . Theological Verlag Zürich, 1952, ISBN 978-3-290-17319-7 ( google.de [accessed June 17, 2020]).

[2] Albrecht Burkardt; Gerd Schwerhoff (ed.): Tribunal of the Barbarians? Germany and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Period. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Konstanz and Munich, 2012, accessed on June 17, 2020 .

[3] Martin Haas: Profiles of early Anabaptism in the Bern area, Solothurn, Aargau. In: Zwingliana XXXVI. 2009, accessed June 17, 2020 .