Balthasar Hubmaier, the Anabaptist movement's most learned theologian, is burned at the stake in Vienna and his wife drowned in the Danube; his writings on believers' baptism survive as the movement's theological foundation.
Tagged: Persecution Anabaptist Christian
The Event
- Date
- 1528 (exact)
- Era
- Reformation; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Vienna; today Vienna, Austria
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Anabaptist
- Key figures
- Balthasar Hubmaier
- Key texts
- On the Christian Baptism of Believers (1525)
Primary Sources
- Balthasar Hubmaier, Schriften
Secondary Sources
- González, The Story of Christianity, vols. 1–2 (Harper, 2010)
Provenance: HIST-0066; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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