!!!Hubmaier, Balthasar

Hubmaier, Balthasar, b. Friedberg near Augsburg (Germany), after 
1480, d. Vienna (executed), March 10, 1528. Theologian, cathedral 
preacher in Regensburg, turned Anabaptist. Worked until 1525 in 
southern Germany, 1526/27 in Nikolsburg and Austria, where the 
Anabaptist movement spread rapidly. He advocated the right to military 
action and was publicly burnt at Erdberg near Vienna.

!Literature
R. Reingrabner, Die Protestanten in Oesterreich, 1981; E. 
Mabry, B. H. doctrine of the church, 1994; NDB.


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