Balthasar Hubmaier Biography

The biography of the man who's famous saying this blog is named after and who wrote that quote above begins:

"Balthasar Hubmaier was a participant in the Anabaptist wing of the Reformation for less than three years. Baptized in Waldshut [Germany] on Easter Saturday, April 15, 1525, he met his death at the stake in Vienna on March 10, 1528. In that limited time his writings and public activity gained him a well-earned reputation as the most learned and the most gifted communicator among the Anabaptists. He did not stand in the middle of the Anabaptist movement, but was without contest that most able theologian and the most visible among the leaders of those first years" (Balthasar Hubmaier: Theologian of Anabaptism, 15).