About Leonhard Kaiser
Lived 1480 – 1527 (aged 46–47). Leonhard Kaiser was a German theologian and protestant reformer.
Leonhard Kaiser (around 148016 August 1527; also spelled Lienhard, Lenhard, Kaysser, Kayser, Keizer, Käser) was a Lutheran theologian and reformer who was burned as a heretic.
Biography Kaiser was born in Raab in the Bavarian Innviertel around 1480 to a middle class family. He studied theology at the University of Leipzig, and earned a baccalaureate degree in 1501.
While imprisoned, he received a letter from Luther, urging him, whether freed or not, to "recognize, bear, love and praise with a good heart the fatherly will of God in him." He received a similar supporting letter from Philip Melanchthon, but it was discovered much later. The work appeared in nine editions.
Leonhard Kaiser's memorial day in the Protestant Calendar of Saints is 16 August.
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Who was Leonhard Kaiser?
German theologian
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Leonhard Kaiser was born in 1480 in Raab.
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Leonhard Kaiser died on 16 August 1527 in Schärding.
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Leonhard Kaiser was a theologian and protestant reformer.
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Leonhard Kaiser was German.
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