Reber, Samuel (18th century)

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Samuel Reber (Räber), a Mennonite living at Trub in the Emmental, Swiss canton of Bern, "having endured much persecution, oppression, and chains," was put on board a boat on 18 March 1710, with 44 men and 12 women and taken down the Rhine to be deported to America. He escaped and returned to Switzerland contrary to his promise, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Dutch ambassador at Bern, Runckel, intervened and had him released. Reber was then, at the age of 75, against his will, put on a boat with Hans Bürky and taken down the Rhine to be settled in the Netherlands. But he left the boat at Mannheim with other passengers, mostly followers of Hans Reist. Then all trace of Reber is lost.

Bibliography

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 433.

Müller, Ernst. Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer. Frauenfeld: Huber, 1895. Reprinted Nieuwkoop : B. de Graaf, 1972: 111, 296, 302, 304, 307.


Author(s) Ernst Crous
Date Published 1959

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Crous, Ernst. "Reber, Samuel (18th century)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Reber,_Samuel_(18th_century)&oldid=146095.

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Crous, Ernst. (1959). Reber, Samuel (18th century). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Reber,_Samuel_(18th_century)&oldid=146095.



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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 259. All rights reserved.


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