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Hans Landis : Swiss Anabaptist Martyr In Seventeenth Century Documents, Introduced, Transcribed, And Translated By James W. Lowry, Co-Edited By David J. Rempel Smucker And John L. Ruth, E. Morris Sider
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This book focuses on Hans Landis, an early Anabaptist ordained minister and leader of Anabaptists in the area around Zurich , Switzerland. As such, he was a likely target for persecution by church and civil authorities. On various occasions they questioned him, banished him from the state, and ordered his execution in 1614.