Balthasar Hubmaier (1480-1528)

Major works

•          On Free Will

•          Booklet against the burning of heretics

Importance

•          South German Reformer and writer

•          Was a Catholic priest who broke from Catholicism and became a key Anabaptist leader

•          Was the most educated of the Anabaptist theologians

•          Gave a strong statement of believer’s baptism

•          Strong view of free will

•          Opposed abuses of the Mass and the worship of images

•          Was not a pacifist

•          Studied with John Eck

•          Affiliated with Zwingli for a time

•          He and his wife were martyred while Zwingli supervised his torture