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Auf dem Haus Sonnenfelsgasse 19, das früher als Amtshaus der Universität diente, wird Konrad Grebel mit einer steinernen Gedenktafel gedacht. Die Inschrift lautet:
Konrad Grebel
studierte von 1515 - 1518 in Wien
Als erster Glaubenstäufer der Neuzeit wurde er zu einem Vorläufer der freikirchlichen Bewegung.
Auf der Gedenktafel ist außerdem ein QR-Code, der zu einer Seite mit einer Biographie von Konrad Grebel führt.
Über Konrad Grebel:
Konrad Grebel (* um 1498 in Grüningen / Schweiz; † August (?) 1526 in Maienfeld bei Chur) war der Sohn eines bekannten Zürcher Kaufmanns und Ratsherrn. Er gilt als Mitbegründer der Täuferbewegung und wird häufig auch als Täufervater bezeichnet.
Von Grebel sind aus der Zeit zwischen 1517 und 1525 an die 70 Briefe erhalten. Die meisten davon sind an Vadian gerichtet und stammen aus seiner Studentenzeit. Die Eingabe an den Zürcher Rat, die Protestation und Schutzschrift, die früher ihm zugerechnet wurde, stammt von Felix Mantz. Dagegen sind die beiden Briefe, die vom Täuferkreis an Müntzer gerichtet waren, von Grebel selber verfasst worden. Eine von ihm geplante Schrift zur Tauffrage scheint er nie fertiggestellt zu haben. Die Bibelkonkordanz, die 1525 unter dem Namen von Hans Krüsi in Augsburg erschien, stammt möglicherweise von Grebel.
Sein eigentliches täuferisches Wirken umfasste lediglich anderthalb Jahre. Da er die erste bekannt gewordene Gläubigentaufe der Reformationszeit vollzog, wurde und wird er in freikirchlichen bzw. täuferischen Kreisen auch als Täufervater bezeichnet.
Quelle und weitere Informationen: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Grebel
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On the house Sonnenfelsgasse 19, formerly the official residence of the university, Konrad Grebel is commemorated with a stone plaque. The inscription reads:
Konrad Grebel
studied from 1515 - 1518 in Vienna
As the first faith baptist of modern times, he became a pioneer of the free church movement.
On the commemorative plaque there is also a QR code that leads to a website with a biography of Konrad Grebel.
About Konrad Grebel:
Conrad Grebel (c. 1498–1526), son of a prominent Swiss merchant and councilman, was a co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement. In 1961 a Mennonite University College was named after him in Waterloo, Ontario.
The extant works of Conrad Grebel consist of 69 letters written by him from September 1517 to July 1525, three poems, a petition to the Zürich council, and portions of a pamphlet written by him against infant baptism, as quoted by Zwingli in his counterarguments. Three letters written to Grebel (Benedikt Burgauer, 1523; Vadian, 1524; and Erhard Hegenwalt, 1525) have been preserved. The majority of the 69 letters written by Grebel are from his student years, however, and shed little light on his ministry as an Anabaptist.
Though his entire life was less than 30 years, his Christian ministry was compressed into less than four years, and his time as an Anabaptist was only about a year and a half, Conrad Grebel's impact earned him the title "the Father of Anabaptists". Grebel performed the first known adult baptism associated with the Reformation, and was referred to as the "ringleader" of the Anabaptists in Zürich. Zwingli complained of no major differences with Grebel on cardinal points of theology, and minimized Grebel's differences as "unimportant outward things, such as these, whether infants or adults should be baptized and whether a Christian may be a magistrate." Yet these differences reveal a deep division of thought on the nature of the church, and the relationship of the church and the Christian to the world. The beliefs of Conrad Grebel and the Swiss Brethren have left an impression on the life and thought of Amish, Baptist, Schwarzenau Brethren/German Baptist, and Mennonite churches, as well as numerous pietistic and free church movements. The Bruderhof Communities, founded in 1920, draw inspiration from the beliefs and actions of Conrad Grebel and the other reformation era Anabaptists. Where others only longed for restitution or shrank from too much reform, Grebel and his group acted decisively and at great personal risk. Freedom of conscience and separation of church and state are two great legacies of the Anabaptist movement initiated by these Swiss Brethren.
With Petr Chelcický (1390–1460) of Bohemia, Conrad Grebel is considered one of the first nonresistant Christians of the Reformation.
In 1961 a Mennonite University College was named after him in Waterloo, Ontario. The residents of Conrad Grebel University College refer to his memory lovingly as Connie G and hold him in steep reverence, including a cardboard cutout that has been erected in his name and likeness.
Source and further information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Grebel