Lewis Hetzer - Germany - 16th Century

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Lewis Hetzer - Germany - 16th Century

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Lewis Hetzer appears to be one of the first prominent Antitrinitarians in the wake of Luther's Reformation.
In the year 1527 Lewis Hetzer, a learned man, wrote a work against the Trinity. He was cast into prison and suffered death in 1529.

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1529. Lewis Hetzer suffers death at Constance on a charge of blasphemy, Feb. 4th.

Antitrinitarian biography, by Robert Wallace (1850). Source
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Lewis Hetzer, wrote a Treatise against the Trinity so early as the year 1524. His book was suppressed by Zuinglius, and the author suffered at Constance.

Dissertations on the Unity of God, by William Christie (1828). Source

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