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Kasper Schwenckfeld

 

Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig, (born 1489, Ossig, Lower Silesia [Germany]—died Dec. 10, 1561, Ulm [Germany]), German theologian, writer, and preacher who led the Protestant Reformation in Silesia. He was a representative of a phenomenon called Reformation by the Middle Way, and he established societies that survive in the United States as the Schwenckfelder Church.