Ancken, Hans (d. 1543)
Hans Ancken of Auzeldingen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, was a martyr of whom nothing is known except that he is named among the forty Anabaptists executed in Bern on 17 September 1543, given in a marginal note in the Märtyrerspiegel printed in Ephrata (1748): 138.
Bibliography
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 70.
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