Jakob Widemann

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Jakob Widemann († 1536 in Vienna ) was a leading figure in the Moravian Anabaptist movement . There is also the form of the name Jakob Wiedemann . Sometimes he was also referred to as one-eyed Jacob .

Life

Widemann came from Memmingen in Swabia and probably joined the Reformation Anabaptist movement in Augsburg in 1527 . In the same year he moved to Nikolsburg in Moravia , where a local Anabaptist Reformation had already taken place a year earlier under the influence of Balthasar Hubmaier . In the inner-Anabaptist conflict over the legitimacy of state violence, Widemann supported the pacifist stabbers' party and became one of its leaders. After Widemann and a group of around 200 members of the Stäblers left Nikolsburg in the spring of 1528, the principle of community of property was established within the group , with the men of the group spreading a coat on the open heath, on which everyone threw whatever property they still owned led himself. A short time later the group was able to settle near Austerlitz , where the first Anabaptist community was founded on a communal basis. The community soon became known as the Austerlitzer Brothers and began to expand after the accession of South German and Tyrolean Anabaptists. In the year 1530, a daughter community could already be established in nearby Butschowitz . In the winter of 1530/31 the community is said to have comprised around 600 adult members.

Widemann himself was head of the Austerlitz brothers. After internal conflicts, a group of around 150 people from Tyrolean Anabaptists separated from the Austerlitzers in January 1531 and, under the leadership of Wilhelm Reublin, among others, moved to Auspitz , where another Bruderhof was established. The Hutterites named after Jakob Hutter emerged from the settlement in Auspitz . After there had been a shorter wave of persecution and corresponding expulsion mandates in Moravia in 1535/36, Widemann moved with some brothers to Vienna in 1535, where the group was arrested and tortured. Widemann was probably killed here in 1536. Neither writings nor songs have come down to us from him.

literature

  • Robert Friedmann: Widemann . In: Mennonite Lexicon . tape 4 . Karlsruhe 1967, p. 526 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Rothkegel: The Austerlitz Brothers or Allies - Pilgram Marpecks parish in Moravia . In: Writings of the Association for Reformation History . tape 209 , 2009, pp. 246 .

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personal data
SURNAME Widemann, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiedemann, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Figure of the Moravian Anabaptist Movement
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 1536
Place of death Vienna