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März (Mertz), Joachim, an [[Anabaptism|Anabaptist]] martyr, a native of [[Bamberg (Freistaat Bayern, Germany)|Bamberg]], [[Germany|Germany]], was won to Anabaptist doctrine by [[Hut, Hans (d. 1527)|Hans Hut ]] and baptized by him in a village near Koburg in the summer of 1526 together with [[Binder, Eucharius (d. 1527)|Eucharius Binder]]. Like Hans Hut, he was an Anabaptist missionary, at first in the region, of [[Königsberg in Bayern (Freistaat Bayern, Germany)|Königsberg]] in Franconia and the valleys of the tributaries of the Main. In the statements made by the prisoners he was usually named with Hans Hut, and seems to have accompanied him on his journeys. Early in 1527 he was in the region of Bamberg (Wappler, 239), [[Nürnberg (Freistaat Bayern, Germany)|Nürnberg]], and [[Augsburg (Freistaat Bayern, Germany)|Augsburg]] (Wappler, 245), and later in Passau. From here he went to the [[Martyrs' Synod|Martyrs' Synod]] in Augsburg with Hans Hut, Eucharius Binder, and [[Nespitzer, Georg (16th century)|Georg Nespitzer]] (Roth, 232), and there was commissioned to evangelize in the region of Salzburg (Roth, 232 and 234). But their work was of short duration. They were imprisoned in Salzburg with Binder, and burned at the stake on 25 October 1527.
= Bibliography =
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. ''Mennonitisches Lexikon'', 4 vvol. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 57.

Nicoladoni, Alexander. <em>Johannes Bünderlin von Linz und die oberösterreichischen Täufergemeinden in den Jahren 1525-1531</em>. Berlin : R. Gaertner, Hermann Heyfelder, 1893.

Roth, Fr. <em>Augsburgs Reformationsgeschichte</em> I. München, 1901.

Wappler, Paul. <em>Die Täuferbewegung in Thüringen von 1526-1584</em>. Jena: Gustav Fisher, 1913.
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