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Article: Zwingli, Huldrych (1484–1531)
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ZWINGLI, HULDRYCH (1484
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1531)
ZWINGLI, HULDRYCH
(1484
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1531), Swiss reformer and church leader. Born into a peasant family in Toggenburg, an Alpine valley in the eastern part of modern-day Switzerland, Zwingli studied at the universities of Vienna and Basel (1498
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1506), where he was exposed to the major currents that would shape his theology: late medieval Scholasticism and humanism. Research beginning in the late twentieth century has pointed to the particular importance of Desiderius Erasmus (1466?
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1536) and John Duns Scotus (c. 1266
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1308) to his theological formation. Zwingli was ordained to the priesthood and served first in Glarus, one of the ...