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Rudolf Stähelin (1811-1900), a Swiss Protestant historian, professor of theology at the University of [[Basel (Switzerland)|Basel]]. His most important work, <em>Huldreich Zwingli</em> (1895 and 1897), presents the beginnings of the [[Anabaptism|Anabaptist]] movement in Zürich and in [[Switzerland|Switzerland]]; it is a very valuable book. Other works of particular interest to Mennonites are <em>Die ersten Märtyrer des evangelischen Glaubens in der Schweiz</em> (1883), his treatise on [[Vadian, Joachim (1484-1551)|Vadian]] in <em>Beiträge zur vaterländischen Geschichte</em> (Basel, 1882), <em>Das theologische Lebens werk Johann Oeholampads</em> (Leipzig, 1939), and <em>Briefe und Akten zum Leben Oekolampads</em> I and II (Leipzig, 1927-34).
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