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Heinrich Bullinger
Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575) was a Swiss Reformer. He succeeded Huldrych Zwingli and led the church of Zurich for more than forty years, and he wrote the Second Helvetic Confession.
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- Anna AdlischwylerPeople
Anna Adlischwyler (d. 1564) was a sixteenth-century woman of Zurich, Switzerland. A former nun of the Oetenbach convent, she married the reformer Heinrich Bullinger in 1529 and was afterward remembered as a model for the household of a Reformed pastor.
- Emil BrunnerPeople
Emil Brunner (1889–1966) was a Swiss Reformed theologian. With Karl Barth he was a leader of dialectical theology, also known as neo-orthodoxy, and in 1934 he engaged in a controversy with Barth over natural theology.
- Julius WellhausenPeople
Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918) was a German Old Testament scholar and Orientalist. He is widely known for systematizing the Documentary Hypothesis, which holds that the Pentateuch was composed from four sources (J, E, D, and P).
- Erdmuthe Dorothea von ReussPeople
Erdmuthe Dorothea von Reuss (1700–1756) was a German countess and hymnwriter of the Pietist era. The first wife of Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, she managed the household affairs and finances of the Herrnhut community, thereby supporting the Moravian Church.