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Conrad Grebel ( c. 1498 – 1526) was a co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement. Early life. Conrad Grebel was born, probably in Grüningen in the canton of Zürich, about 1498 to Junker Jakob and Dorothea (Fries) Grebel, the second of six children. He spent his early life in Grüningen, and then came to Zürich with his family around 1513.
Konrad Grebel was the chief founder of the Swiss Brethren, an Anabaptist movement centred on Zürich. His humanist education at Basel, Vienna, and Paris led him gradually to oppose the conservative Swiss Reformer Huldrych Zwingli, whom he had earlier supported.
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Oct 21, 2017 · Conrad Grebel is known as a “radical Reformer” — a leader who took the movement one step further by insisting on separating church from state.
Jul 28, 2009 · Furthermore, he not only never practiced adult baptism, but wrote the first Protestant liturgy for the baptism of children (1523) and was rebuked by Conrad Grebel for failing to abandon infant baptism.
- Harold S. Bender
- 1938
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May 15, 2019 · Conrad Grebel (ca. 1498-1526), can be considered the chief founder of Swiss-South German Anabaptism.
Under Ulrich Zwingli and the city council in Zurich, the Reformation was proceeding. But Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, and other associates of Zwingli didn’t feel the Reformation was going far...
