Wolfgang Ulimann

Wolfgang Ulimann also Uliman, Ullmann and Uolimann; actually Wolfgang Schorant (* around 1500 in St. Gallen ; † 1530 in Waldsee ; executed) was a Swiss Anabaptist preacher .

Life

Wolfgang Ullmann was of the founders of the Anabaptist movement Conrad Grebel (1498-1526) in the Rhine at Schaffhausen baptized been and worked as a Baptist preacher in St. Gallen. His father was the guild master Andreas Ulimann. Until around 1523/24 he was a monk with Jörg Blaurock in the St. Lucius Monastery in Chur . When the Reformation broke out, he began to publicly interpret the Bible together with Johannes Kessler in St. Gallen . In 1525 he was baptized by Konrad Grebel in the Rhine not far from Schaffhausen. Together with Lorenz Hochrütiner he now vehemently advocated the cause of the baptismal. As a result, Ulimann was arrested several times and banished from the city. Later he went to Moravia . When he wanted to save his fellow believers in St. Gallen from there, he was arrested with ten like-minded people in Waldsee and executed in 1530.

literature

Ludwig Keller : Uliman called Schorank, Wolfgang . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 187 f.
Johann Keßler's Sabbata with small writings and letters. Edited by R. Egli (with a biography of Keßler von Egli). St. Gallen 1902.
Andrea Strübind: More zealous than Zwingli. The early Anabaptist movement in Switzerland. Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-428-10653-9 . Pp. 475-484.

Web links

Samuel Geiser: Uolimann, Wolfgang (d.1528) . In: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
Ulimann, Wolfgang. In: Dizionario del pensiero cristiano alternativo (Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ The information about the year of death vary. 1528 is given in various sources. In the historiography of Waldsee the execution is fixed at 1530. Cf. JDG Memminger: Description of the Oberamt Waldsee , 1884. P. 76.

personal data
SURNAME	Ulimann, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Uliman, Wolfgang; Uolimann, Wolfgang; Schorant, Wolfgang (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Baptist preacher
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH	1530
Place of death	Forest lake

[1] The information about the year of death vary. 1528 is given in various sources. In the historiography of Waldsee the execution is fixed at 1530. Cf. JDG Memminger: Description of the Oberamt Waldsee , 1884. P. 76.