Zwingli, H.

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[Inserted in Margin: [Zwingli] H (1484- 1531): Swiss] reformer, was born a free peasant stack. He was educated in Swiss schools and universities, and had some experience of monastery life. His father did not intend him for the cloister, and sent him to the university of Vienna. When 22, he was ordained and became parish priest of [Glaws?]. In 1518 he was elected people's priest of the minister at Zurich. Early in the next year he began a series of sermons on the N. T. which mark the beginning of the Reformation in Zurich.