Jan van Schoonhoven (16th century)
Jan van Schoonhoven, an otherwise unknown Dutch Anabaptist, who was present at a meeting of Anabaptist leaders in 1536 at Bocholt (Boekholt) in Westphalia, Germany. He may be identical with Johan van Utrecht, a former Catholic priest, who stayed in Münster in 1534.
Bibliography
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1919): 194;
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: I, 239.
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