| LC control no. | n 79107620 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hoffman, Melchior, -1543 or 1544 |
| Variant(s) | Hoffman, Melchior, d. 1543 or 4 Hoffmann, Melchior, -1543 or 1544 Hofmann, Melchior, -1543 or 1544 Hofman, Melchior, -1543 or 1544 M. H., -1543 or 1544 |
| See also | Alternate identity: Becker, Caspar, -1543 or 1544 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000446451587 |
| Located | Livonia Valmiera (Latvia) Tartu (Estonia) Kiel (Germany) |
| Birth date | 1490~ |
| Death date | [1543,1544] |
| Place of birth | Schwäbisch Hall (Germany) |
| Place of death | Strasbourg (Free imperial city) |
| Affiliation | Anabaptists |
| Profession or occupation | Theologians Clergy Fur workers |
| Found in | Deppermann, K. Melchior Hoffman, 1979 (subj.) t.p. (Melchior Hoffman) p. 36, etc. (birth d. unknown, d. in 1543 or 1544, preacher and prophet) Allg. dt. Biog., 1969 (Hofmann, Melchior, b. before 1500, d. 1543 or 1544) BM (Hoffman, Melchior) Gr. Brockh., 15th ed. (Hofmann, Melchior, birth d. unknown, d. 1543 or 1544) BnF, catalogue général, viewed June 14, 2023 (Hoffman, Melchior ; German Anabaptist ; born in Schwäbisch Hall around 1490, died in Strasbourg in detention (1543)) <http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11944758w> Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek, viewed June 14, 2023 (Hoffman, Melchior ; theologian, lay preacher and Anabaptist leader ; originally a furrier; worked especially in Livonia (Valmiera and Tartu) and Kiel for the Reformation; 1529 renunciation of Lutheranism, organized the Anabaptist movement in the Netherlands; his followers in Strasbourg, East Friesland and in the Netherlands were called Melchiorites ; born ca. 1490 in Schwäbisch Hall, died 1543 in Strassburg ; variant names: Hofman, Melchior; M.H.; also published under the pseudonym: Beck, Kaspar (variant form: Becker, Kaspar)) <https://d-nb.info/gnd/118552716> |
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