Editing Hutterites (section)

=== Beginnings ===
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The [[Anabaptist]] movement, from which the Hutterites emerged, started in groups that formed after the early [[Reformation in Switzerland]] led by [[Huldrych Zwingli]] (1484–1531). These new groups were part of the [[Radical Reformation]], which departed from the teachings of Zwingli and the [[Swiss Reformed Church]]. In [[Zürich]] on January 21, 1525, [[Conrad Grebel]] (c. 1498–1526) and [[George Blaurock|Jörg Blaurock]] (c. 1491–1529) practiced adult baptism to each other and then to others.<ref>Anthony L. Chute, Nathan A. Finn, Michael A. G. Haykin. ''The Baptist Story'', Nashville, 2015, p. 12.</ref> From Switzerland Anabaptism quickly spread northward and eastward in the timespan of one year. [[Balthasar Hubmaier]] (c. 1480–1528), a Bavarian from [[Friedberg, Bavaria|Friedberg]], became an Anabaptist in Zürich in 1525 but fled to [[Mikulov|Nikolsburg]] in [[Moravia]] in May 1526. Other early Anabaptists who became important for the emerging Hutterites were [[Hans Denck]] (c. 1500–1527), [[Hans Hut]] (1490–1527), [[Hans Schlaffer]] († 1528), [[Leonhard Schiemer]] (c. 1500–1528), [[Ambrosius Spittelmayr]] (1497–1528) and [[Jakob Widemann]] († 1536).<ref>John A. Hostetler: ''Hutterite Society'', Baltimore 1974, pp. 10–11.</ref> Most of these early Anabaptists soon became martyrs of their faith.