Carlstadt

Carlstadt (properly, ANDREAS RUDOLF BODENSTEIN), reformer, born prior to 1483 at Carlstadt in Bavaria, joined Luther, who in 1521 was compelled to rebuke his iconoclastic zeal, and whom he afterwards opposed on the question of the Eucharist. Accused of participation in the Peasants' War (q.v.) and other intrigues, he fled to Switzerland, and became professor of Theology at Basel, where he died, 25th December 1541.