Huldrych Zwingli, Huldreich Zwingli
1484–1531

Introduction

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Zwingli Statue
Wasserkirche, Zürich, Switzerland

Born: Ja­nu­ary 1, 1484, Wild­haus, Tog­gen­burg val­ley, Swit­zer­land (about se­ven miles from the Liech­ten­stein bor­der).

Died: Oc­to­ber 11, 1531, in the Bat­tle of Kap­pel.

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Ulrich Zwingli (1484–1531)
Portrait by Albrecht Dürer, 1516

Biography

Not sur­pris­ing­ly, Zwin­gli was en­tang­led in the theo­lo­gic­al and po­li­ti­cal dis­putes of the day, and more than once served as a chap­lain to Swiss mi­li­ta­ry forc­es.

Zwingli com­posed one of his best known piec­es af­ter he caught the plague in Sep­tem­ber 1519 in Zür­ich. Writ­ten as a po­em, it has been adapt­ed as a hymn, known as Zwing­li’s Pest­lied.

His other works in­clude:

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Herr, nun heb den Wa­gen selb
  2. Hilf, Herr Gott, hilf in dies­er Not
    • Lord, We Cry to You for Help