John of Leyden, originally a tailor; attained great power as an orator; joined the Anabaptists, and in 1534 established at Münster, in Westphalia, a society based on communistic and polygamic principles; but the bishop of Münster interfered, and next year John was put to death with great cruelty (1509‒1536).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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