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Christoph Schappeler

c. 1472–1551 · 16th century

Christoph Schappeler was a preacher in Memmingen from 1513 who led the city's turn to the Reformation. In 1525 he helped Sebastian Lotzer draft the Twelve Articles, the main programme of the rebels in the German Peasants' War, and after the peasants' defeat he fled to St. Gallen in Switzerland, his home town.

Christoph Schappeler — Image: Thomas Mirtsch · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Free Imperial City of Memmingen

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