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See also:HAETZER, or HETZER, See also:LUDWIG (d. 1529) , Swiss divine, was See also:born in See also:Switzerland, at Bischofszell, in See also:Thurgau . He studied at See also:Freiburg-See also:im-See also:Breisgau, and began his career in a chaplaincy at Wadenswil, on the See also:Lake of See also:Zurich . At this See also:time his See also:attachment to the old faith was tempered by a mystical turn, and by a devotion to the prophetical writings of the Old Testament, which he studied in the See also:original . By 1523 we find him in Zurich, where he published, at first anonymously and in Latin (Judicium Dei), later with his name and in See also:German (See also:Sept . 24, 1523), a small See also:tract against the religious use of images, and bearing the See also:motto attached to all his subsequent See also:works, " 0 Got erlosz See also:die (or dein) Gefangnen " (" 0 See also:God, set the prisoners See also:free ") . An See also:attempt to give effect to the teaching of this (frequently reprinted) tract was followed by a public religious disputation, of which See also:Haetzer See also:drew up the See also:official See also:account . In 1524 he brought out a tract on the See also:conversion of the See also:Jews, and published a German version of Johann See also:Bugenhagen's brief exposition of the epistles of St See also:Paul (See also:Ephesians to See also:Hebrews); in the See also:dedication (dated Zurich, See also:June 29, 1524) he undertakes to translate Bugenhagen's comment on the Psalter . He then went to See also:Augsburg, bearing See also:Zwingli's introduction to Johann Frosch . Here he came for a time under the See also:influence of Urbanus Regius, and was for a See also:short time the See also:guest of Georg See also:Regal . Returning to Zurich, he was in intercourse with leading See also:Ana-See also:baptists (though his own position was simply the disuse of See also:infant See also:baptism) till their See also:expulsion in See also:January 1525 . Again resorting to Augsburg, and resuming See also:work as corrector of the See also:press for his printer Silvan Ottmar, he pushed his views to the extreme of rejecting all sacraments, reaching something like the mystical standpoint of the See also:early See also:Quakers . He was expelled from Augsburg in the autumn of 1525, and made his way through See also:Constance to See also:Basel, where See also:Oecolampadius received him kindly . He translated into German the first See also:treatise of Oecolampadius on the See also:Lord's Supper (in which the words of institution are taken figuratively), and proceeding to Zurich in See also:November, published a b . his version there in See also:February 1526, with a See also:preface disclaiming connexion with the See also:Anabaptists . His relations with Zwingli were difficult; returning to Basel he published (See also:July 18, 1526) his See also:translation of See also:Malachi, with Oecolampadius's exposition, and with a preface reflecting on Zwingli . This he followed by a version of See also:Isaiah See also:xxxvi.-See also:xxxvii . He next went to See also:Strassburg, and was received by Wolfgang See also:Capito . At Strassburg in the See also:late autumn of 1526 he See also:fell in with Hans Dengk or Denck, who collaborated with him in the See also:production of his See also:opus magnum, the translation of the See also:Hebrew Prophets, Alle Propheten nach hebraischer Sprach vertuetscht . The preface is dated See also:Worms, 3 See also:April 1527; and there are See also:editions, Worms, 13 April 1527, See also:folio; Augsburg, 22 June 1527, folio; Worms, 7 Sept . 1527, 16°; and Augsburg, 1528, folio . It was the first See also:Protestant version of the prophets in German, preceding See also:Luther's by five years, and highly spoken of by him . Haetzer and Denck now entered on a propagandist See also:mission from See also:place to place, with some success, but of short duration . Denck died at Basel in November 1527 . Haetzer was arrested at Constance in the summer of 1528 .
After See also:long imprisonment and many See also:examinations he was condemned on the 3rd of February 1529 to die by the See also:sword, and the See also:sentence was executed on the following See also:day
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His demeanour on the See also:scaffold impressed impartial witnesses, Hans Zwick and See also: |
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