Thomas Müntzer
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Thomas Müntzer was an early Reformation-era German pastor who became a rebel leader during the German Peasants' War, advocating for radical religious and social change. He matters historically because his life and death exemplify the violent conflicts and competing visions of reform that emerged during the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany.
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- 1490
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- 1525
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- Politische Schriften
- Thomas Müntzers Briefwechsel
- Politische Schriften Manifeste Briefe 1524-25
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Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489 – 27 May 1525) was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther and the Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther's compromises with feudal authority. He was a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising of 1525 commonly known as the German Peasants' War.
In 1514, Müntzer became a Catholic priest in Brunswick, where he began to question the teachings and practices of the Catholic Church. He then became a follower and acquaintance of Martin Luther, who recommended him for a post in Zwickau. His beliefs became increasingly spiritual and apocalyptic; by his arrival at Allstedt in 1523 he had completely broken with Luther. Amidst the peasant uprisings in 1525, Müntzer organized an armed militia in Mühlhausen. He was captured after the Battle of Frankenhausen, tortured and finally executed.
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1480s births1525 deaths15th-century German people16th-century apocalypticists16th-century Christian mystics16th-century criminals from the Holy Roman Empire16th-century executions in the Holy Roman Empire16th-century German male writers16th-century German Protestant theologiansChristian radicalsCritics of the Catholic ChurchEuropean University Viadrina alumni