Pieter Jans (d. 1540)
Pieter Jans(z), an Anabaptist martyr, a native of Blankenham, Dutch province of Overijssel, confessed that he had been baptized about 1536 at Oldersum in East Friesland, Germany, by Menno Simons, and was beheaded at Kampen, Dutch province of Overijssel, on 14 June 1540. Further particulars are lacking.
Bibliography
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1875): 65 f.; (1906): 4.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 392.
Vos, Karel. Menno Simons, 1496-1561, zijn leven en werken en zijne reformatorische denkbeelden. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1914: 243.
| Author(s) | Nanne van der Zijpp |
|---|---|
| Date Published | 1959 |
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