Oswald Glaidt

Oswald Glait († 1546) was a German Sabbath- Aryan Baptist. It is also the form of the name Oswald Glaidt.

Life

Glait came from Cham in the Upper Palatinate. Year of his birth and his first years of life are largely in the dark. As a former Catholic priest, however, he joined at the beginning of the 1520s the Lutheran Reformation and worked for some time as an evangelical preacher in Leoben in Styria. From there he went in 1525 to the Moravian Mikulov, where there had been a run of John Spittelmaier Lutheran congregation since 1524. Two years later supported Glait January Dubcanskys efforts to unite the Lutheran and the hussitisschen Utraquist municipalities in the Czech Republic. For this Glait also participated in a joint synod in Austerlitz. After its failure finally Dubcansky founded in 1528, influenced by the Zwinglianism faith community of Habrowaner brothers. Glait turned himself under the influence of acting in Mikulov in early summer 1526 Balthasar Hubmaier of the radical Reformation Anabaptist movement. Here he wrote in 1527 his writing apology Osbaldi Glaidt of Chamb in which he justified his Anabaptist- Reformed views. As in the same year a theological dispute split the Nikolsburger Baptist in the group of Schwertler to Hubmaier and the staff officer to Hans Hut, Glait took the side of the Stäbler and finally followed Hans Hut to Vienna. In Vienna he took part in the meetings of the Taufergemeinde in Kärntner Straße and baptized at Pentecost in 1527 to a year later murdered Leonhard Schiemer. After combustion, Balthasar Hubmaier in Vienna in March 1528 Glait finally turned into Silesian Legnica, where Kaspar Schwenckfeld worked. In Silesia Glait also met with Andreas Fischer. In a 1530 published writing Glait finally represented the first time the idea that the celebration of the Sabbath was binding for Christians in the new covenant. In the following months, Glait held mainly in Prussia, but was already in 1532 reported together with the Anabaptist- Spiritualist theologian Johannes Biinderlin from Prussia. Probably Glait held then in the Bohemian Sokolov, because there until 1538 there was a Sabbatarian community. The movement founded by Glait the Sabbatarians also appeared on the Baptist communities in the region Mikulov broadcast. Later Glait led a Baptist congregation in Jamnitz in Moravia. In 1545 Glait was arrested in Vienna and at night drowns after more than a year in prison in the fall of 1546 in the Danube.

The by an unknown author wrote a hymn your boys and your old, now hear the poem extols his death as Anabaptist martyr. From Glait itself are the two songs O sun Davidt, hear my pray you, and let the mercy and The Ten Commandments handed down. The latter has already been printed as a pamphlet in 1530 and again in 1563 reissued in Magdeburg.