Gabriel Zwilling
Deceased Person
1487 – 1558
Who was Gabriel Zwilling?
Gabriel Zwilling was a German Lutheran and Protestant Reformer born near Annaberg, Electorate of Saxony. He was educated in Wittenberg and Erfurt. He like Martin Luther was a member of the Augustinian order, which he left in 1521.
Zwilling became prominent in the Wittenberg reform movement in mid-1521, when Luther was secured in the Wartburg after the Diet of Worms. Along with Carlstadt, Zwilling guided the Wittenberg movement in a more radical direction. In January 1522 he participated in iconoclasm in Wittenberg.
When Luther returned to Wittenberg and regained control in March 1522, Zwilling publicly admitted his errors, and gave his support to Luther’s more conservative vision of reform. He became a prediger in Altenburg in 1522, and moved to Torgau in 1523 where he became successively prediger, pastor, and superintendent. He was removed from his final office because he opposed the Leipzig Interim of 1549. Zwilling died in Torgau.
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- Born
- 1487
Annaberg-Buchholz - Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- University of Erfurt
- Lived in
- Saxony
- Died
- May 1, 1558
Torgau
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on July 23, 2013
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