Thomas Saltzmann

Thomas Saltzmann († 1527 in Strasbourg ) was an Anabaptist who was tried and convicted as a blasphemer.

Saltzmann was charged for his testimony that the Old and New Testaments were contradicting each other and that Christ was a false prophet deserving of his death. There was only one God who appeared to Moses in the thorn bush. Saltzmann advocated the idea that Christ is not God. During the trial, alleged witnesses exaggerated the iniquity of his language. At the end of the trial, Saltzmann was full of remorse, which led the judges to convert the originally imposed penalty of burning into death by beheading.

literature

• Lorna Jane Abray: Confession, conscience, and honor: the limits of magisterial tolerance in sixteenth-century Strasbourg , in Ole Peter Grell and Bob Scribner (Eds.): Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation , Cambridge University Press, 2002. Online abstract
• George Huntston Williams : The Radical Reformation, 3rd edition . Truman State University Press, 1995, p. 379.