Peter Walpot

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Peter Walpot ( Walbot ), also Peter Scherer , (* around 1518 or 1521 in Klausen , South Tyrol ; † January 30, 1578 in Přibice , Moravia ) was an important community leader of the Hutterite Brothers in Moravia, who under his direction the so-called "Goldene Time ”.

Life

Peter Walpot was born in Tyrol. As a boy, he witnessed the execution of the Anabaptist preacher Jörg Blaurock in Klausen on September 6, 1529 . Little is known about his education. He worked as a cloth shearer, which is why he was also called Peter Scherer in contemporary sources. Around 1539 he and his wife left the Tyrol together with about fifty other Anabaptists. Under the direction of the ropemaker Leonhard Lanzenstiel , the group went to Moravia to join the local Hutterite community. As early as 1542 he was elected Servant of the Word and thus became one of the leaders of the Hutterite Brotherhood alongside Lanzenstiel and Peter Riedemann . In 1545 Walpot was a member of the delegation that led part of the Gabriels to the Hutterite community. Together with his wife and other Hutterites, he went on mission trips from Moravia to Silesia . After the death of Peter Riedemann in 1556 Walpot took on a leading role in the Moravian Huttertum and after the death of Lanzenstiel in 1565 he was appointed head of the brotherhood. In this position, which he exercised until his death in 1578, he took part in the Frankenthal Religious Discussion in 1571 .

In Walpot's time, the brotherhood experienced an extraordinary heyday, which is sometimes referred to as the "golden era" of the Hutterites. The community quickly grew to up to 30,000 baptized people who were organized in about a hundred brother courts . The administrative center of the community was Neumühl ( Nové Mlýny ). From here Walpot sent numerous letters to missionaries, followers and sympathizers. With his support, Kaspar Braitmichel began to write the "Great History Book", which is still important today among the Hutterites . Walpot himself wrote the “Big Article Book ” ( a nice and funny book of main articles of our Christian faith ), in which the five important articles of Moravian Anabaptism - baptism, the Lord's Supper, serenity and community of goods, non-violence, segregation - were dealt with. Of particular importance is its order and custom, as is common with children , an educational pamphlet that can be described as unique for the time. The Hutterite education system is regulated in detail for the first time in these “school regulations”.

In addition to the various tracts and letters, some hymns have also come down to us from Walpot.

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  • W. Saliger: Peter Scherer's (Schörer's) speech, which he held with other elders at the school in Niemtschitz in Moravia on November 15, 1568, and the school regulations in 1578. In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungs- und Schulgeschichte , 11 (1901), pp. 112-127.
  • Rudolf Wolkan (ed.): History book of the Hutterite brothers. Vienna 1923.

literature

  • Harold S. Bender (Ed.): A Hutterite School Discipline of 1578 and Peter Scherer's Address of 1568 to the Schoolmasters. In: Mennonite Quarterly Review , 5 (1931), pp. 231-244.
  • Robert Friedmann: A dogmatic main writing of the Hutterite Anabaptist communities in Moravia In: Archive for Reformation History, XXVIII (1931), pp. 102–11 and pp. 217–18.
  • Robert Friedmann (Hrsg.): Testimonies of Faith of Upper German Baptists II. Gütersloh Publishing House Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh 1967.
  • Leonard Gross: The Golden Years of the Hutterites: The Witness and Thought of the Communal Moravian Anabaptists During the Walpot Era, 1565-1578. Scottdale 1980, ISBN 083611227X .
  • Daniel Heinz:  Walpot, Peter. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Col. 225-229.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Lydia Müller (Hrsg.): Testimonies of faith of Upper German baptismal I. M. Heinsius successors, Leipzig 1938.
  • Ludwig Keller:  Walpot, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 770.
  • Gerd L. Ströhmann: Peter Walpot and the Hutterite school system. In: Sabine Kirk, Johannes Köhler, ea (eds.): School and History. Bad Heilbronn 2000, pp. 80-98.

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personal data
SURNAME Walpot, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scherer, Peter; Walbot, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Head of the Hutterite Anabaptists in Moravia
DATE OF BIRTH 1518 or 1521
PLACE OF BIRTH Klausen (South Tyrol)
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1578
Place of death Přibice