John of Leiden, Dutch Anabaptist leader (died 1536)

John of Leiden

Dutch Anabaptist leader (1509–1536)

John of Leiden was a Dutch Anabaptist leader. In 1533 he moved to Münster, capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, where he became an influential prophet, turned the city into a millenarian Anabaptist theocracy, and proclaimed himself King of New Jerusalem in September 1534.…