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school. In 1571, a year before his death, he was elected Antistes or head of
the clergy of St. Gall. He had a wife and eleven children, nine of whom
survived him. He was a pure, amiable, unselfish, and useful man and
promoter of evangelical religion. His portrait in oil adorns the City Library
of St. Gall.
The county of Toggenburg, the home of Zwingli, was subject to the abbot
of St. Gall since 1468, but gladly received the Reformed preachers under
the influence of Zwingli, his relatives and friends. In 1524 the council of
the community enjoined upon the ministers to teach nothing but what they
could prove from the sacred Scriptures. The people resisted the
interference of the abbot, the bishop of Constance, and the canton Schwyz.
In 1528 the Reformation was generally introduced in the towns of the
district. With the help of Zürich and Glarus, the Toggenburgers bought
their freedom from the abbot of St. Gall for fifteen hundred guilders, in
1530; but were again subjected to his authority in 1536. The county was
incorporated in the canton St. Gall in 1803. The majority of the people are
Protestants.
The canton Appenzell received its first Protestant preachers—John
Schurtanner of Teufen, John Dorig of Herisau, and Walter Klarer of
Hundwil—from the neighboring St. Gall, through the influence of Watt.
The Reformation was legally ratified by a majority vote of the people, Aug.
26, 1523. The congregations emancipated themselves from the jurisdiction
of the abbot of St. Gall, and elected their own pastors. The Anabaptist
disturbances promoted the Roman-Catholic reaction. The population is
nearly equally divided,—Innerrhoden, with the town of Appenzell,
remained Catholic; Ausserrhoden, with Herisau, Trogen, and Gais, is
Reformed, and more industrious and prosperous.
The Reformation in Thurgau and Aargau presents no features of special
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§ 35. REFORMATION IN SCHAFFHAUSEN. HOFMEISTER.
Melchior Kirchofer: Schaffhauserische Jahrbücher von 1519–1539,
oder Geschichte der Reformation der Stadt und Landschaft
Schaffhausen. Schaffhausen, 1819; 2d ed. Frauenfeld, 1838 (pp. 152).
By, the same: Sebastian Wagner, genannt Hofmeister. Zürich, 1808.—
EDW. IM-THURM und HANS W. HARDER: Chronik der Stadt
Schaffhausen (till 1790). Schaffhausen, 1844.—H. G. SULZBERGER: