Chart of Protestant Reformers
This chart provides basic facts on notable reformers and leaders in the Protestant Reformation. A few Catholics, like Bucer and
Erasmus, are included here because of their importance in the Protestant Reformation. Click links in the chart for biographies and
other information.
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Name(s)
James Arminius;
Jacobus
Arminius; Jacob
Hermansz
Theodore Beza
Martin Bucer;
Martin Butzer
Birth
1560
Oudewater,
Netherlands
1519
1491
Death
Cause of
Associated
Education Vocation(s)
Death
Tradition
1609
Natural
Leiden,
causes
Netherlands
1605
Natural
causes
Leiden,
Basel,
Geneva
Orleans
professor at
Leiden,
theologian
professor of
Greek at
Geneva,
minister,
theologian
Natural
former
Feb. 28,
causes;
Dominican
1551
body
monk,
Heidelberg
Cambridge, exhumed
professor of
England and burnt
Divinity at
in 1557.
Cambridge
Works
Overview
Reformed
Orations;
Rejected Calvinist
Declaration predestination; laid
of Sentiments;
theological
Apology;
foundation for
Disputations
John Wesley.
Reformed
Succeeded Calvin
as religious leader
Confession of
of Geneva.
the Christian
Hardened Calvin's
Faith; On the
doctrine of
Rights of
predestination.
Magistrates
Discovered Codex
Bezae.
Lutheran
Known as the
Peacemaker of the
Reformation.
Humanist. Led
Reformation in
Strasbourg. Tried
to reconcile
Lutherans,
Reformed and
Catholics.
Heinrich
Bullinger
Jul. 18, 1504
Bremgarten,
Switzerland
Sept. 17,
1575
Natural
Zurich,
causes
Switzerland
John Calvin; Jean
Cauvin
1509
Noyon,
France
1564
Natural
Geneva,
causes
Switzerland
1489
Thomas Cranmer Nottinghamshire,
England
Thomas
Cromwell
c. 1485
Mar. 21,
1556
Oxford,
England
July 28,
1540
Cologne
Paris and
Orleans
Burned at
Cambridge
the stake
theologian
professor,
minister
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
Member of
Beheaded
Parliament,
for
unknown
vicartreason
general
Reformed
Influenced by
first and
Erasmus, Luther,
second
Melanchthon.
Helvetic
Succeeded Zwingli
Confessions at Zurich. Opposed
presbyterianism.
Reformed
Led Geneva;
Institutes of
developed doctrine
the Christian
of sovereignty of
Religion
God
Anglican
Played large role in
English
first and
Reformation.
second Book
Involved in Henry
of Common
VIII's divorce; was
Prayer;
burned at the stake
Thirty-Nine
under Queen Mary
Articles
after recanting his
recantation.
Anglican
none
Supervised
dissolution of
monasteries.
Attempted
marriage alliance
between Henry
VIII and German
Lutherans.
Desiderius
Erasmus;
Erasmus of
Rotterdam;
Erasmus
Roterodamus
George Fox
Jan Hus; John
Huss
John Knox
c. 1469
Rotterdam,
Netherlands
1624
Fenny Drayton,
Leicestershire,
England
1536
Natural Gouda and
Basel,
causes Deventer
Switzerland
Jan. 13,
1691
Natural
causes
July 6,
1373
1415
Burned at
Husinec, Czech
Constance, the stake
Republic
Germany
c. 1514
Haddington,
Scotland
1572
Natural
causes
none
Prague
Glasgow
and St.
Andrews
humanist
scholar
shoemaker
Catholic
Praise of
Folly;
Handbook of Moderate reformer;
the Christian
witty satirist;
Soldier;
translated Latin
Complaint of Bible into Greek.
Peace; On
Free Will
Quaker
Founder of the
Society of Friends
(Quakers).
Emphasized the
Inner Light of
Christ. Frequent
missionary
journeys.
Journal
Influenced by
Wycliffe.
Emphasized right
living over
sacraments.
Opposed
veneration of
images and
indulgences.
Became national
hero.
priest,
Catholic
professor of
(prephilosophy
Reformation)
at Prague
priest,
notary,
private
tutor,
preacher
Reformed
The First
Blast of the
Trumpet
Against the
Monstrous
Went to Geneva in
1553, influenced
by Calvin.
Returned to
Scotland in 1559
Regiment of
Women;
History of the
Reformation
of Religion in
Scotland
Hugh Latimer
Martin Luther;
Martin Luder
Philip
Melanchthon;
Philip
Schwartzerdt
("Black earth")
c. 1485
1483
Eisleben,
Germany
1497
Oct. 16,
1555
Oxford,
England
1546
Eisleben,
Germany
1560
Burned at
Bishop of
Cambridge
the stake
Worcester
Natural
causes
Natural
causes
Leipzig
professor,
priest
Heidelberg professor of
and
Greek at
Tubingen Wittenberg
and led Scottish
Reformation.
Anglican
Twice imprisoned
Many
by Henry VIII.
sermons;
Leading preacher
most famous
under Edward VI.
is "Of the
Burned at the stake
Plough"
under Mary Tudor.
Lutheran
Sparked the
95 Theses;
Reformation by
Freedom of a protesting against
Christian;
indulgences.
Bondage of Taught justification
the Will;
by faith alone,
Smaller and
authority of
Larger
scripture alone.
Catechisms
Married former
nun.
Lutheran
Luther's colleague
at Wittenburg.
Attempted
reconciliation with
Reformed and
Catholics.
Systematized
Luther's theology.
Loci
Communes
Nicholas Ridley
c. 1500
1555
chaplain to
Cranmer
Burned at
and Henry
Cambridge
the stake
VIII,
Bishop of
London
Menno Simons
1496
1561
Natural
causes
Philip Jakob
Spener
1635
Alsace
1705
Natural
Strasbourg
causes
William Tyndale;
William Tindale;
William Huchyns
John Wesley
c. 1494
June 17, 1703
Epworth,
Lincolnshire,
England
Oct. 6,
1536
Brussels,
Belgium
Mar. 2,
1791
London,
England
Oxford
Taught believers'
baptism, nonresistance,
symbolic
Eucharist. Founder
of Mennonites.
parish
priest
Anabaptist
(Mennonite)
preacher
Lutheran,
Pietist
Pia Desideria
Anglican
English
translation of
Lived in exile on
NT;
the Continent,
Obedience of
where he published
a Christian
English NT.
Man; Parable
Executed.
of the Wicked
Mammon
Anglican,
Methodist
A Plain
Founded
Account of
Methodism;
Christian
adopted Arminian
Perfection;
doctrine of free
Advice to a
will; emphasized
People Called
sanctification.
Methodist
Strangled
Oxford
and
and
translator
burned at
Cambridge
the stake
Natural
causes
Helped
produce Book Burned at the stake
of Common
with Latimer.
Prayer
Anglican
minister,
founder of
Methodism
Founder of
Pietism.
John Wycliffe;
John Wyclif
Ulrich Zwingli;
Huldrych Zwingli
c. 1330
Yorkshire,
England
Jan. 1, 1484
Wildhaus,
Switzerland
Dec. 31,
1384
Oxford,
England
Oct. 11,
1531
Kappel
(near
Zurich),
Switzerland
Natural
causes;
body
exhumed
and burnt
in 1415
Oxford
On the
professor,
Catholic
Church; On
theologian,
(prethe Truth of
philosopher
Reformation)
Sacred
at Oxford
Scripture
priest,
Killed in
military
battle
Bern,
chaplain,
against
Vienna
People's
Catholic and Basel Preacher at
cantons.
Zurich's
Old Minster
Reformed
Translated Bible
into English;
rejected many
Catholic practices;
sent out preachers
called Lollards.
Posthumously
declared heretic .
Introduced
On True and reformation ideas
False
to Zurich and
Religion; 67
throughout
Conclusions; Switzerland. Said
Concerning nothing should be
Freedom and
believed or
Choice of practiced that is not
Food; The
in the Bible.
Clarity and
Argued with
Certainty of
Luther over the
the Word of
Eucharist.
God
Persecuted
Anabaptists.