Petronella (d. 1535)

Petronella, an Anabaptist martyr, the wife of a baker of Holdenstedt, a village near Sangershausen in Thuringia, Germany, who was seized with Hans Höhne at Halberstadt in September 1535 and drowned in the Bode at Groningen in October 1535.

Bibliography

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: III, 356.

Wappler, Paul. Die Täuferbewegung in Thüringen von 1526-1584. Jena: Gustav Fisher, 1913: 133 ff.

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 155. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

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MLA style: Neff, Christian. "Petronella (d. 1535)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 14 February 2012. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/petronella_d._1535.

APA style: Neff, Christian. (1959). Petronella (d. 1535). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 14 February 2012, from http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/petronella_d._1535.

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