22 Facts About Conrad Grebel

Conrad Grebel was born, probably in Gruningen in the Canton of Zurich, about 1498 to Junker Jakob and Dorothea Grebel, the second of six children.

Conrad Grebel spent his early life in Gruningen, and then came to Zurich with his family around 1513.

Conrad Grebel spent several years abroad in study, worked as a proofreader in Basel, married in 1522, and became a Christian minister around 1523.

Conrad Grebel is thought to have studied for six years at the Carolina, the Latin school of the Grossmunster Church in Zurich.

Conrad Grebel's father acquired a stipend from Emperor Maximilian for Conrad to study at the University of Vienna.

Related searches

Conrad Grebel's father acquired a scholarship for Conrad from the King of France to attend the University in Paris.

Conrad Grebel spent two years in study there, and joined the boarding academy of his former teacher in Basel, Loriti.

In Paris Conrad Grebel engaged in a loose lifestyle, and was involved in several brawls with other students.

Conrad Grebel spent about six years in three universities, but without finishing his education or receiving a degree.

In 1521 Conrad Grebel joined a group gathered to study with Huldrych Zwingli.

Conrad Grebel probably experienced a conversion in the spring of 1522.

Conrad Grebel's life showed a dramatic change, and he became an earnest supporter of the preaching and reforms of Zwingli.

Conrad Grebel rose to leadership among Zwingli's young and enthusiastic followers.

Conrad Grebel saw this as an issue of obeying God rather than men, and, with others, could not conscientiously continue in that which they had condemned as unscriptural.

Conrad Grebel had an infant daughter, Issabella, who had not been baptized, and he resolutely stood his ground.

Conrad Grebel continued his ministry and was at some point able to get his pamphlet printed.

Conrad Grebel removed to the Maienfeld area in the Canton of Grisons .

The majority of the 69 letters written by Conrad Grebel are from his student years and shed little light on his ministry as an Anabaptist.

Conrad Grebel performed the first known adult baptism associated with the Reformation, and was referred to as the "ringleader" of the Anabaptists in Zurich.

Conrad Grebel's father Jakob was an iron merchant and served as a magistrate in Gruningen from 1499 to 1512.

Jakob Conrad Grebel disagreed with his son's religious sentiments, but he thought Zwingli's measures against the Anabaptists were too harsh.

Conrad Grebel's grandson, named Conrad, was the city's treasurer in 1624, and a later descendant named Conrad Grebel was burgomaster in 1669.