Jakob Hutter
Austrian religious leader
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Anabaptists
- In Anabaptist
…Moravia under the leadership of Jakob Hutter, stressed the common ownership of goods modeled on the primitive church in Jerusalem. The Hutterite colonies first established in Moravia survived the Reformation and are now located primarily in the western United States and Canada. Another important leader, Melchior Hofmann, established a large…
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Hutterites
- In Hutterite
…name of its charismatic leader, Jakob Hutter (tortured and burned as a heretic in 1536), still survives, mostly in the western sections of the United States and Canada, and has a population of about 50,000. In colonies of 60 to 150 persons, they operate collective farms (Bruderhof) and, not unlike…
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