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Jakob Hutter
Tyrolean Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites
Not to be confused with Hans Hut.
Jakob Hutter (also spelled Jacob Hutter, Huter or Hueter; c.
1500 – 25 February 1536) was a TyroleanAnabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites.
Biography
Hutter was born in the small hamlet of Moos near St. Lorenzen in the Puster Valley, in the County of Tyrol (present-day South Tyrol, Italy).
Jakob hutter biography
He learned hat making in nearby Prags and became an itinerant craftsman. Later he settled in Spittal, Carinthia.
He probably first encountered Anabaptists in Klagenfurt and soon thereafter was converted to their belief.
He began preaching in the Puster Valley region, forming several small congregations. As soon as the Habsburg authorities in Tyrol learned of these activities in early 1529, they began to persecute the Anabaptists. In 1527, the Habsburg archduke Ferdinand I of Austria had declared that seductive doctrines and heretical sects "will not be tolerat