Liegnitz

(now Legnica)

Poland


1522

Caspar Schwenckfeld became an advisor in church affairs to Duke Frederick II. He was already a Lutheran but by 1529 he had moved in a more spiritualist direction. In April 1529 he left the territory, eventually ending up in Strasbourg.


1527

Andreas Fischer & Oswald Glaidt arrived and began working with the thriving Anabaptist community here. Before long Fischer & Glaidt had converted most of these Anabaptists to their Sabbatarian position.





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