Lorenz Hochrütiner

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Lorenz Hochrütiner , also Hochreutiner, (* around 1490 in St. Gallen , † after 1528) was a supporter of the Reformation Anabaptist movement .

Life

Lorenz Hochrütiner was probably born towards the end of the 15th century in St. Gallen as the son of the judge Hans Hochrütiener. Nothing is known about his early years. From 1520 he can be found as a weaver in Zurich. As a follower of Zwingli , he was one of the initiators of the Castelberg Bible Reading Group . He publicly spoke out against paid service . In March 1522 he was one of the participants in the legendary sausage meal / fasting break at the bookseller Froschauer . Early on he took part in spectacular iconoclastic actions. So he was caught removing the Eternal Light in the Fraumünster and throwing it under the pulpit in September 1523 . When he took part in the removal of the wayside cross of Stadelhofen (today part of Zurich) by Klaus Hottinger in November 1523 , he was expelled from the city.

Accompanied by letters of recommendation from Grebel and Zwingli to Vadian , he returned to his hometown St. Gallen and joined the Reformation circle around Johannes Kessler . At one of Kessler's Bible readings, he openly opposed infant baptism and demanded that a letter from Grebel be read aloud on the subject. According to Kessler, it was Hochrütiner who led Wolfgang Ulimann to become Anabaptists. Hochrütiner and his family were soon expelled from St. Gallen.

He moved to Basel where he acquired citizenship in 1524. There he joined the Anabaptist circles. Their activities have been discovered. After a meeting in the house of the Freiburg tailor Michel Schürer, part of the Anabaptist community was arrested. Hochrütiner was expelled from Basel together with Ulrich Hugwald and other Anabaptists in August 1525. Hochrütiner was banished a second time in July 1526 and his family was banished from Basel a week later. He subsequently worked as an Anabaptist in Alsace . From the end of 1527 he is recorded in Strasbourg , where he acquired citizenship in 1528. Nothing is known about his further activities.

His son Jakob Hochrütiner also worked as an Baptist. He went to Bern in 1527 , but was soon expelled from there.

literature

  • Andrea Strübind: More zealous than Zwingli. The early Anabaptist movement in Switzerland . Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-428-10653-9 .
  • Lee Palmer Wandel: Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg and Basel . Cambridge, New York 1995. ISBN 0521663431 .
  • Hanspeter Jecker: The Basel Anabaptists. Studies on prehistory and early history . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde . 1980, pp. 5–131 ( digitized version )
  • Johann Keßler's Sabbata with small writings and letters , edited by R. Egli. St. Gallen 1902.
  • Paul Burckhardt : The Basel Anabaptists. A contribution to the history of the Swiss Reformation . Basel 1898.
  • Emil Egli: The St. Gallen Anabaptists: portrayed in the context of the urban Reformation history . Zurich 1887.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jecker (HLS).
  2. ↑ Change (1995).
  3. ↑ Strübind (2003), pp. 194-196.
  4. ^ Johann Kessler: Sabbata, p. 264ff.
personal data
SURNAME Hochrütiner, Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hochreutiner, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION radical Anabaptist activist of the Early Reformation
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH after 1528