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Nikolaus Thomae (Nicolaus Sigelsbach) (1492-?), pastor in Bergzabern, [[Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)|Palatinate]], Germany, a close friend of [[Oecolampadius, Johannes (1482-1531)|Johannes Oecolampadius]] in Basel and of [[Bader, Johannes (1470-1545)|Johannes Bader]] in [[Landau (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)|Landau]]. He engaged in a debate with [[Denck, Hans (ca. 1500-1527)|Hans Denck]], and wrote a detailed report about this encounter in an important letter to Oecolampadius on 11 April 1527. He spent a week in [[Strasbourg (Alsace, France)|Strasbourg]] and discussed sixteen difficult points, especially the matter of baptism, with Capito and [[Bucer, Martin (1491-1551)|Bucer]]. He had frequent contacts with [[Anabaptism|Anabaptists]], with whom he "associated on a friendly basis, for they are God-fearing and brave people" (Gelbert), as he wrote to his friend Conrad Hubert, 28 January 1529. Thomae was not a great scholar. His Latin was not exact. Anabaptists like Hans Denck and [[Haetzer, Ludwig (1500-1529)|Ludwig Haetzer]] far surpassed Thomae in their mastery of the ancient languages.
= Bibliography =
Gelbert, J. P. <em>Magister Johann Baders Leben und Schriften, Nikolaus Thomae und seine Briefe</em>. Neustadt, 1868: 159 ff.

Hege, Christian. <em>Die Täufer in der Kurpfalz</em>. Frankfurt, 1908.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. ''Mennonitisches Lexikon'', 4 vols. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. IV, 317.

Stähelin, Ernst. <em>Briefe und Akten zum Leben Oeholampads</em> I. Leipzig, 1927: 337 and 335 ff.

Stähelin, Ernst. <em>Briefe und Akten zum Leben Oeholampads</em> II. Leipzig, 1934: 51 ff., 894.

Stähelin, Ernst. <em>Das theologische Lebenswerk Oeholampads</em>. Leipzig, 1939.

Teufel, Eberhard. "Täufer-tum und Quäkertum." <em>Theologische Rundschau</em> XIII (1941): 184.
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