Berthold Haller (1492 - February 25, 1536), Swiss reformer, was born at Aldingen in Württemberg. Events January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege. ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... Württemberg (often spelled Wurttemberg in English) refers to an area and a former state in Swabia, a region in south-western Germany. ...

After studying at Pforzheim, where he met Melanchthon, and at Cologne, he taught in the gymnasium at Bern. He was appointed assistant preacher at the church of St Vincent in 1515 and people's priest in 1520. Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon, by Lucas Cranach the Elder. ... The city of Bern, English traditionally Berne (Swiss German Bärn , German Bern , French Berne , Italian Berna , Romansh Berna ), is the Bundesstadt (capital) of Switzerland, and is the fourth most populous Swiss city after Zürich, Geneva and Basel). ...

Even before his acquaintance with Zwingli in 1521 he had begun to preach the Reformation, his sympathetic character and his eloquence making him a great force. In 1526 he was at the abortive conference of Baden, and in January 1528 drafted and defended the ten theses for the conference of Bern which established the new religion in that city. Zwinglis Successor Zwinglis successor, Heinrich Bullinger, was elected on December 9, 1531, to be the pastor of the Great Minster at Zürich, a position which he held to the end of his life (1575). ... Events January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther. ... Events January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. ...

He left no writings except a few letters which are preserved in Zwingli's works.

Life by Pestalozzi (Elberfeld, 1861). Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (January 12, 1746 - February 17, 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer. ...

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