Thomas Müntzer

Also known as Thomas Münzer

early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader during the German Peasants' War

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Thomas Müntzer was an early Reformation-era German pastor who became a rebel leader during the German Peasants' War, advocating for radical religious and social change. He matters historically because his life and death exemplify the violent conflicts and competing visions of reform that emerged during the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1490
Died: 1525
Works: 5

Top works

The collected works of Thomas Müntzer
Historien von Thomas Müntzer
Politische Schriften
Thomas Müntzers Briefwechsel
Politische Schriften Manifeste Briefe 1524-25

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Sachsen-Anhalt
Active from: 1490
Active to: 1525

Discography

Deutsche Evangelische Messe - Deutsches Kirchenamt2025

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 76
Total plays: 569

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 160,608x
The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,915x
U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 57,338x
STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,599x
UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,720x

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Quotes

“The league at Allstedt wanted to establish this principle, Omnia sunt communia, ‘All property should be held in common’ and should be distributed to each according to his needs, as the occasion required. Any prince, count, or lord who did not want to do this, after first being warned about it, should be beheaded or hanged.”
“Das Volk wird frei werden, und Gott will allein der Herr darüber sein!”
“Sieh zu, die Grundsuppe des Wuchers, der Dieberei und Räuberei sein unser Herrn und Fürsten, nehmen alle Kreaturen zum Eigentum: die Fisch im Wasser, die Vögel in der Luft, das Gewächs auf Erden muß alles ihr sein (Jes. 5). Darüber lassen sie dann Gottes Gebot ausgehen unter die Armen und sprechen: »Gott hat geboten: Du sollst nicht stehlen.«”
“Es ist der Natur ein unleidlichs Werk, die Furcht Gottes zum Anfang des Glaubens zu machen.”
“God speaks only in the suffering of creatures, a suffering that the hearts of the unbelievers do not have because they become more and more hardened.”

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Official website: www.thomas-muentzer.de
Image: Thomas Muentzer.jpg

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date of death: 1525-05-27
date of birth: 1489-01-01
name in native language: Thomas Müntzer
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Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489 – 27 May 1525) was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther and the Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther's compromises with feudal authority. He was a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising of 1525 commonly known as the German Peasants' War.

In 1514, Müntzer became a Catholic priest in Brunswick, where he began to question the teachings and practices of the Catholic Church. He then became a follower and acquaintance of Martin Luther, who recommended him for a post in Zwickau. His beliefs became increasingly spiritual and apocalyptic; by his arrival at Allstedt in 1523 he had completely broken with Luther. Amidst the peasant uprisings in 1525, Müntzer organized an armed militia in Mühlhausen. He was captured after the Battle of Frankenhausen, tortured and finally executed.