Flensburg (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Flensburg, a city (population 50,000 in the mid-1950s; 87,000 in 2005) in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in which a colloquy with Melchior Hoffman took place on 8 April 1529.
Bibliography
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 v. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: I, 654.
Krohn, B. U. Gesch. der fanatischen und enthusiastischen Wiedertäufer vornehmlich in Niederdeutschland. Leipzig, 1758: 149 ff, gives the official records of the debate as published by Bugenhagen
Linden, F. O. zur. Melchior Hofmann Haarlem, 1885: 134 ff.
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