Wilhelm Reublin

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Wilhelm Reublin (also Röubli, * around 1484 in Rottenburg am Neckar , † after 1559) was a leading figure in the Swiss Anabaptist movement in the 16th century.

Life

Old church of Witikon (today the city of Zurich)

Wilhelm Reublin was born in Rottenburg am Neckar around 1484. After studying theology in Freiburg and Tübingen , Reublin worked as a priest in Grießen (Klettgau) . In 1521 he became a people priest at St. Alban in Basel , where Reublin approached reformatory ideas. The parsonage of St. Alban soon became a center of the Reformation circle in Basel. In the autumn of 1522, however, Reublin was expelled from the city after a tumult due to his Reformation sermons.

After a stay in Laufenburg (Baden) he came to Zurich and worked as a preacher in Witikon and Zollikon . At the end of 1522 the Witikon parish appointed him a people priest and at the same time refused to pay tithes . As a local pastor, he addressed all Reformation issues and advocated the abolition of infant baptism . In April 1523 he married Adelheid Leemann and was the first priest in the Confederation to publicly break celibacy . Reublin had meanwhile joined the Castelberg reading group around Konrad Grebel and Felix Manz , from which the first Anabaptist community developed in January 1525. When his congregation openly rejected the baptism of infants from the spring of 1524, it aroused the displeasure of the authorities. In Zurich, Reublin took part in the baptism disputation of January 17, 1525, after which Grebel and Manz were punished with a ban on speaking and non-Zurich residents like Reublin had to leave the city of Zurich within eight days.

Hallau mountain church (built 1491)

Reublin settled with John Brötli in 1521 under the reign of Schaffhausen standing place Hallau down where they could establish a large Baptist congregation in a short time. From Hallau, Reublin successfully promoted the still young Anabaptist movement in other places. At Easter 1525 he baptized the theologian Balthasar Hubmeier in Waldshut , under whom the village of Waldshut developed into another center for Anabaptists. Even Michael Sattler was later baptized by Reublin in Rottenburg. Further stations were the places Schaffhausen, Strasbourg, Reutlingen and Eßlingen.

After being imprisoned in Strasbourg in the winter of 1528/29, Reublin emigrated in 1530 with his wife and other Swiss Anabaptists to the Moravian town of Austerlitz , where a communitarian Anabaptist community based on community of property had already formed. From Austerlitz Reublin moved with about 150 other Anabaptists to Auspitz in January 1531 , also to be able to implement a stricter form of community of property there. In the same year, however, Reublin was expelled from the Auspitz community because private property had been found with 24 guilders. Reublin finally returned to southwest Germany, where he was once again active as an Anabaptist in Rottenburg in 1531. In the following period, however, he separated from the Anabaptist movement. Around 1535 Reublin was in correspondence with the Reformed theologian Heinrich Bullinger .

In August 1554 Reublin reappears in Basel. Otherwise hardly anything is known about its final years.

Christening succession

The line of baptismal succession goes back to Wilhelm Reublin (January 1525) via Jörg Blaurock (January 1525) to Konrad Grebel (January 1525). The dates in brackets indicate the respective baptism date. Evidence of this can be found in the biography articles of the persons mentioned.

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SURNAME Reublin, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian and member of the Swiss Anabaptist movement
DATE OF BIRTH around 1484
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottenburg am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH after 1559