Tetzel

American

[tet-suhl] / ˈtɛt səl /

Or Tezel

noun

Johann 1465?–1519, German monk: antagonist of Martin Luther.

Tetzel British

/ ˈtɛtsəl /

noun

Johann (joˈhan). ?1465–1519, German Dominican monk. His preaching on papal indulgences provoked Luther's 95 theses at Wittenberg (1517)

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Tetzel was raising money to rebuild St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

In 1517, Luther decided to take a public stand against the actions of a friar named Johann Tetzel.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Thus the scene shifts quickly to the Antarctic Ocean, where Alan Ladd is chasing whales and Joan Tetzel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Played with fire and ice by Kirk Douglas and Joan Tetzel, Cuckoo's Nest is implausible, if scarifying, viewed as realism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not a few of the monks triumphed in them as an effective blow against Tetzel and the Dominicans.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

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