Wilhelm Reublin
Wilhelm Reublin (also Röubli, * to 1484 in Rottenburg am Neckar, † after 1559 ) was a leading figure of the Swiss Anabaptist movement of the 16th century.
Life
Wilhelm Reublin was born around 1484 in Rottenburg am Neckar. After studying theology in Freiburg and Tübingen Reublin worked as a priest in Grießen ( Unterklettgau ). In 1521 he became people's priest at St. Alban in Basel, where approached Reublin Reformation thought. The rectory of St. Alban was so soon to be a center of the Reformation in Basel circle. In the autumn of 1522 Reublin but was expelled because of his reformatory sermons after uproar from the city.
After a stay in Laufenburg ( Baden) he came to Zurich and worked as a preacher in Witikon and Zollikon. End of 1522 Witikoner community appointed him as secular priest and denied at the same time giving the tithe. As a local pastor, he thematized all Protestant subjects and advocated the abolition of infant baptism. In April 1523 he married Adelheid Leeman and was the first priest of the Confederation, the public broke the celibacy. Reublin, meanwhile, had the Castelberger reading circle around Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz connected, from which developed the first Baptist congregation in January 1525. As his community from spring 1524 open rejected the Säuglinstaufe, aroused the resentment of authority. In Zurich Reublin participated in the Taufdisputation from January 17, 1525 in part, were punished after their completion Grebel and Mantz with a gag order and had to leave the city of Zurich, within eight days, the non- Zurich as Reublin.
Reublin sat down with John Brötli in the area under the rule of Schaffhausen since 1521 Hallau place where they could establish a large Baptist church in a short time. From Hallau Reublin also campaigned successfully in other places for the fledgling Anabaptist movement. At Easter 1525 he baptized in Waldshut the theologian Balthasar Hubmeier, the place Waldshut developed under the prove to be another center of the Baptist. Michael Sattler was also later baptized by Reublin in Rottenburg. Further stations were the places Schaffhausen, Strasbourg, Reutlingen and Esslingen.
After a detention in Strasbourg in Winter 1528/29 Reublin emigrated 1530 with his wife and other Swiss Anabaptists in Moravia Austerlitz, where already -based community of property communitarian Baptist congregation was formed. From Austerlitz Reublin moved with about 150 other Anabaptists in January 1531 after Auspitz, also there to implement a strikere form of community of property to. But in the same year Reublin was excluded from the Auspitzer community, as they had found him 24 guilders privately owned. Reublin finally returned to West Germany, where he again was Anabaptist active in Rottenburg 1531. In the following years, however, he separated from the Anabaptist movement. 1535 was Reublin in correspondence with the Reformed theologian Heinrich Bullinger.
In August 1554 Reublin appears again in Basel. About his last years is otherwise little known.
Taufsukzession
The line of Taufsukzession goes back at William Reublin ( January 1525 ) by Jörg Blue Skirt ( January 1525 ) at Conrad Grebel ( January 1525 ). The numbers in parenthesis denote the respective data baptism date. Evidence may be found in the biography of the persons mentioned articles.