John of Leyden
Americannoun
noun
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The imposter John of Leyden, who wore a false but very stylish crown in Giacomo Meyerbeer’s “Le Prophete,” was devoured by flames in a fire that he set himself.
From New York Times • May 3, 2012
John of Leyden, whose name was Buckhold, was a butcher of the same place, but a crafty, eloquent, and seditious fellow and one of those called Anabaptists.
From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel
His congregation flocked to him as the Anabaptists to John of Leyden, and shopkeepers profitably advertised their wares by doubling their subscriptions to augment his salary.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard
Math´isen, one of the three anabaptists who induced John of Leyden to join their rebellion; but no sooner was John proclaimed “the prophet-king” than the three rebels betrayed him to the emperor.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
The next prominent event in the great tenor's career was his creation of the character of John of Leyden in Meyerbeer's Prophète.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
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