Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig

A nobleman from Liegnitz, he was one of the earliest promoters of the Reformation in Silesia, he came to Reformation principles through Muntzer and Karlstadt. However he developed his own principles and fell out with Luther over the eucharistic controversy (1524). He had his own views on the sacraments - the Heavenly Flesh doctrine. He founded a new sect, which was outlawed in Germany, but his ideas influenced Anabaptism, Puritanism in England and the Pietistic Movement on mainland Europe.