Zwingli
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Zwingli
A surname from Alemannic, notably borne by Huldrych Zwingli, a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.
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According to Potter, "Huldrych" was the spelling Zwingli preferred.
A friendly attitude towards the Swiss at the Diet was something he later changed, calling Zwingli 's doctrine of the Lord's Supper "an impious dogma ".
As individual pastors altered their practices as each saw fit, Zwingli was prompted to address this disorganised situation by designing a communion liturgy in the German language.
All of those who could afford it left the city, but Zwingli remained and continued his pastoral duties.
After 1529, the ideas of Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) became widely accepted there, through the preaching of Johannes Oecolampadius (1482–1531).
A rendition of Huldrych Zwingli from the 1906 edition of the Meyers Konversations-Lexikon Zwingli rejected the word sacrament in the popular usage of his time.