Huldreich Zwingli

Born in 1484, died in 1531; educated at Bern, Vienna, and Basel; became Pastor of a church in Glarus, Switzerland, in 1506; a Preacher at Zurich in 1518, where he inaugurated the Reformation; met the Saxon reformers in conference in 1529; went with the Zurich forces against the Forest Cantons in 1531; killed at the Battle of Kappel.