Alexander Gordon

“ HAETZER, or Hetzer, LUDWIG (d. 1529) , Swiss divine, was born in Switzerland, at Bischofszell, in Thurgau. He studied at Freiburg-im-Breisgau, and began his career in a chaplaincy at Wadenswil, on the Lake of Zürich. ”

“ He was expelled from Augsburg in the autumn of 1525, and made his way through Constance to Basel, where Oecolampadius received him kindly. He translated into German the first treatise of Oecolampadius on the Lord’s Supper (in which the words of institution are taken figuratively) , and proceeding to Zürich in November, published his version there in February 1526, with a preface disclaiming connexion with the Anabaptists. ”