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Menno Simons
Sign in to saveDutch theologian, founder of the Mennonites (1496-1561)
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- Born
- 1496
- Died
- 31 January 1561
- Works
- 59
Top works
- Fvndamentvm
- Predigten über höchst wichtige Gegenstände des Christenthums
- Onderzoek naar het kenmerkend beginsel der Nederlandsche Doopsgezinden
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Active from
- 1955-08-12
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Functional rafts in cell membranes
· 1997 · cited 8,335x
- Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors
· 2005 · cited 6,076x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,481x
- Lipid rafts and signal transduction
· 2000 · cited 5,186x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,685x
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Quotes
- “For true evangelical faith...cannot lie dormant; but manifests itself in all righteousness and works of love; it...clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.”
- “Do not excuse yourselves, beloved sirs, and judges, that you are the servants of the emperor; this will not acquit you in the day of vengeance. It availed Pilate nothing that he crucified Christ in the name of the emperor. Serve the emperor in imperial matters, so far as Scripture permits, and serve God in divine matters, then you may claim his grace and call yourselves after his name.”
- “Profane history shows that the Lacedaemonians, who were gentiles, did not practice capital punishment; but they imprisoned them and them at labor.”
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Key facts
- Church
- Mennonites
- Born
- 1496, Witmarsum , Friesland , Holy Roman Empire
- Died
- ( 1561-01-31 ) 31 January 1561 (aged 64 or 65), Wüstenfelde , Duchy of Holstein , Holy Roman Empire
- Buried
- Bad Oldesloe
- Denomination
- Catholic (until 1536), Anabaptist (from 1536)
- Spouse
- Geertruydt Jansdochter
- Children
- Two daughters, one son
- Profession
- Catholic priest (until 1536), Anabaptist minister and author (from 1536)
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- Meno simonis.jpg
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- Menno Simons
- date of death
- 1561-01-31
- date of birth
- 1496-01-01
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- name in native language
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Menno Simons ( Dutch: [ˈmɛnoː ˈsimɔns]; West Frisian: Minne Simens [ˈmɪnə ˈsimə̃ːs]; 1496 – 31 January 1561) was a Roman Catholic priest from the Friesland region of the Low Countries who was excommunicated from the Catholic Church and became an influential Anabaptist religious leader. Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and it is from his name that his followers became known as Mennonites.
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