Menno Simonsz.

Menno Simonsz.

born 1496, Witmarsum, Friesland
died Jan. 31, 1561, near Lübeck, Holstein

Dutch Anabaptist leader.

Born into a peasant family, he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, but, doubting the doctrine of transubstantiation, he came under the influence of Lutheranism and withdrew from the church in 1536. Convinced that infant baptism was wrong and that only people of mature faith were eligible for membership in the church, he became a leader in the peaceful wing of the Anabaptist movement in 1537. Pronounced a heretic, he was in constant danger of arrest for the rest of his life but continued to organize Anabaptist groups. He wrote and printed many theological works, and his followers founded the Mennonite Church.

Menno Simonsz., engraving by Christopher van Sichem, 1605–08

Courtesy of the Mennonite Library and Archives, North Newton, Kansas

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