Huldrych Zwingli

His friend Oswald Myconius writes that Zwingli was born in the village of Wildhaus in the Toggenburg, about 1487; the editor of the translation corrects the date to 1 January 1484 (Myconius, Life of Zwingli section II (Latin Works 1, p. 2)). Zwingli said of his own preaching at Zurich that he began with the whole Gospel of Matthew and had not then heard of those whose follower he was later said to be (Zwingli, Archeteles Latin Works 1, pp. 238–239). In 1523 the city council ruled that he should go on preaching as before (Acts of the First Zurich Disputation decree of 29 January 1523 (Selected Works, pp. 92–94)); see Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich and, for those who broke with him, the First Anabaptists.

In 1529 he debated the Lord’s Supper with Martin Luther and judged that Luther had been beaten (Zwingli, Letters, to Vadian, 20 October 1529); see Luther and Zwingli Meet at Marburg. Myconius relates that in the second of the wars named after the monastery of Kappel Zwingli went out with the troops of Zurich as chaplain, on horseback and armed, and was killed in the fighting. The editor of the translation gives 11 October 1531 as the day (Myconius, Life of Zwingli sections XI–XII (Latin Works 1, pp. 21–22)).