Conrad Grebel
Conrad Grebel participated in the Zürich circle and baptized George Blaurock at the 1525 gathering.
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Felix Manz
Felix Manz was an early Zürich Anabaptist. His name also appears as Felix Mantz in the supplied edition of Martyrs’ Mirror.
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George Blaurock took part in the first Zürich baptisms. The supplied sources also use the German form Georg Blaurock.
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Michael Sattler is associated with the Schleitheim Articles and is remembered in Martyrs’ Mirror through an account and a prison letter.
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Jakob Hutter organized and led Anabaptist communities whose shared life became known as the Hutterite tradition.
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The Mennonite name is associated with Menno Simons, a former Dutch priest who became an influential Anabaptist leader.
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Dirk Willems is remembered for rescuing his pursuer from the ice. His original account and its illustration are available in this archive.
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Anna Jans, also known as Anneken Jans, is remembered in the martyr accounts and in the letter she left to her son.
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Hans Landis appears in the seventeenth-century Swiss accounts of Martyrs’ Mirror.
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Thieleman J. van Braght compiled Martyrs’ Mirror. His prefaces explain the historical and theological aims of the collection.
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Jakob Ammann’s name is associated with the 1693 division from which the Amish tradition emerged.
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Eberhard Arnold co-founded the Bruderhof with Emmy Arnold and Else von Hollander in 1920.
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Emmy Arnold was a co-founder of the Bruderhof community in Germany.
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Else von Hollander co-founded the Bruderhof with Eberhard and Emmy Arnold.
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