Heinrich Aberli

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Heinrich Aberli (* in the 15th or 16th century; † in the 16th century) was a Swiss baker and a supporter of the Swiss Anabaptist movement .

Life

Heinrich Aberli's life dates are unknown. It is documented in Zurich from 1522 to 1526 .

He belonged to a group of proto-Anabaptists , to which in addition to the humanistically educated men Konrad Grebel and Felix Manz the theologian Martin Cellarius , the three former clerics Wilhelm Reublin , Johannes Brötli and Ludwig Hätzer , the bookseller Andreas Castelberger , but also Simon Stumpf , Lorenz Hochrütiner and the baker Bartlime Pur belonged. During an interrogation, Aberli reported that the Castelberg Reading Group , a lay Bible school of which he was a co-founder, had come about because of a special request. He himself, Hochrütiner, Jörg Blaurock and Pur had the concern to develop further in the evangelical doctrine and especially in the writings of the apostle Paul .

He participated as a radical followers Ulrich Zwingli on March 9, 1522 at the legendary sausage food / fast break in the Offizin the printer Christoph Auer frog and had recently myself in Baker guild house to Weggen on Ash Wednesday consumed a self brought roast. He also disrupted religious sermons by interrupting them and accusing them of lying. Aberli was one of the initiators of an evangelical demonstration and a participant in the Zurich iconoclasm .

Because of his participation in a meeting at which Zwingli had been invited to a joint meal, Aberli and Klaus Hottinger were summoned for interrogation before the Zurich council, because it had been told that 500 people should be present at the joint meal by which could cause unrest and riot. However, Hottinger corrected during the interrogation that only 34 men from the countryside had participated. After the interrogation, during which they were forbidden from future meetings, Hottinger explained to him that such bans had already existed in the past, and Aberli replied that Hans Waldmann 's head had been cut off , which shortly afterwards led to another Interrogation before the council.

In 1524 it is also mentioned in connection with the so-called Zurich addition, the support of radical Zurich residents for the Waldshut threatened by Austria . He had stayed there as a volunteer soldier of the Zurich Guard, which was supposed to defend Waldshut, and was now the addressee of the Zurich troops there, who asked him to send forty to fifty well-equipped men to defend Waldshut against the Habsburgs .

He was a co-signer of Konrad Grebel's letter of September 5, 1524 to Thomas Müntzer , which the Zurich opponents of infant baptism and church singing wrote to him.

In 1525 he received the baptism of believers by Jörg Blaurock in Zollikon .

After Balthasar Hubmaier's flight , pastor of the Upper Church in Waldshut , and his wife Elsbeth Hügline at the end of 1525, Aberli brought the couple to a widow who also belonged to the Anabaptists; Hubmaier was taken into custody there shortly afterwards.

Aberli led his own wife to Hallau to be baptized as a believer, but finally came to the conclusion that he was "not sigly sent to cry, but to bake bread" ("not be sent to baptize, but to bake bread").

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JF Gerhard Goeters: Ludwig Hätzer (approx. 1500 to 1529), spiritualist and anti-Trinitarian: a marginal figure of the early Anabaptist movement . C. Bertelsmann, 1957, p. 51 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 6, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Regula Bochsler: sausage meal in Zurich Reformation. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
  3. ^ Johann Caspar Bluntschli: History of the Republic of Zurich . Schultheß, 1847, p. 272 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed October 6, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Ludwig Wirz: Helvetische Kirchengeschichte: Joh. Jakob Hottinger's older works and other sources revised . Orell Füssli, 1819, p. 129 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed October 6, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Sources and research on the history of the Reformation . Mediation publisher by M. Heinsius Nachf., 1962, p. 24 u. 31 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 5, 2019]).
  6. ^ Christian Scheidegger: The Zurich Anabaptists 1525–1700 . Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-290-17426-2 , pp. 40 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 6, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Emidio Campi, Amy Nelson Burnett, Martin Ernst Hirzel, Frank Mathwig: The Swiss Reformation: A manual . Theological Publishing House Zurich, 2017, ISBN 978-3-290-17887-1 , pp. 407 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 6, 2019]).
  8. ^ Official collection of the older federal farewells . Meyer'sche Buchdruckerei, 1873, p. 517 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed October 6, 2019]).
  9. ^ Johann Jacob Hottinger: History of the Confederates: During the times of church separation . Drell, Fussli, 1829, p. 6 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed on October 6, 2019]).
  10. ^ Christian Scheidegger: The Zurich Anabaptists 1525-1700 . Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-290-17426-2 , pp. 35 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 6, 2019]).
  11. ^ Siegfried Bräuer, Helmar Junghans, Manfred Kobuch: Correspondence . Verlag der Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig in commission at the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-374-02203-8 , p. 347 f . ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 6, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Sources and research on the history of the Reformation . Mediation publisher by M. Heinsius Nachf., 1962, p. 31 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 6, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Aberli, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aberli, Heini; Äberli, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Co-founder of the Anabaptist movement
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1525