Hans Hut and Thomas Muntzer

Abstract

"ONE of the most interesting persons we encounter in the Reformation era is Thomas Miintzer. Born in Stolberg ill! the Harz mountains in Germany in 1488 or 9 of perhaps fairly wellto-do parents, he was a lover of books from his chidlhood, matriculated at the University of Leipzig. in 1506, and later studied at Frankfurt. He early acquired a large library in which were found works by Augustine, Jerome, Apuleius, Suso, Tauler, Plato and Basil. He gained a working knowledge of Hebrew and Greek in order to be able to study the Bible more effectively, and .his writings give evidence of extraordinarily thorough acquaintance with the Bible. From 1506 to 1520 he always seems to have frequented places where he could study. In 1519 he made the acquaintance of Luther. "