Swiss Reformer of Zurich (1484-1531) and the principal early Reformer of the Reformed (as distinct from Lutheran) branch of the Reformation. Born in the Toggenburg valley; trained at Vienna and Basel; ordained as a Catholic priest (1506); served parishes at Glarus and Einsiedeln before being called as people's priest of the Great Minster (Grossmünster) at Zurich in 1519. Zwingli arrived at Reformation convictions through deep humanist-philological study of the Greek New Testament (probably influenced by Erasmus but quickly moving beyond Erasmus's mediating position) and through his own pastoral experience. From his first sermons at the Grossmünster (preaching consecutively through Matthew rather than following the lectionary), Zwingli's reformation began to clarify. By 1522 he was actively reforming the Zurich church; the Zurich Disputations (1523) marked the formal turn of the city council to the Reformation; Zwingli married Anna Reinhart (publicly 1524, after a years-long irregular union); the Zurich church was reformed in worship, liturgy, polity, and doctrine over the next several years. Zwingli's distinctive theological emphases — especially his memorialist view of the Lord's Supper (the bread and wine as memorial signs of Christ's absent body and blood, against Luther's consubstantiation) — were controverted at the Marburg Colloquy (1529), where Luther and Zwingli reached agreement on fourteen of fifteen articles but parted ways on the Supper. Zwingli was killed on the battlefield at Kappel (October 11, 1531) in the Second Kappel War, defending the Reformed Swiss cantons against the Catholic cantons. His Reformation labor was continued by Heinrich Bullinger.