Background
Reublin was born in 1484 in Rottenburg am Neckar.
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Wilhelm Reublin
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Career
In 1521, after studying theology in Freiburg and Tübingen, Reublin became the pastor at Saint Alban in Basel and began to advocate reform. Saint Alban was soon the center of the evangelical movement in Basel. Reublin was with Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz in Zürich in January 1525 at the birth of the Anabaptist movement.
Reublin took part in a disputation on 17 January 1525 after which Grebel, Mantz and Reublin were given eight days to leave the canton.
Reublin proceeded to Hallau, with John Brötli, who had been in the region of Schaffhausen since 1521. They soon establish a large Anabaptist congregation there.
From Hallau Reublin successfully evangelized in other areas for the young Anabaptist movement. Later Michael Sattler was baptized by Reublin in Rottenburg.
Other places evangelized by Reublin include Schaffhausen, Strasbourg, Reutlingen and Esslingen.
After a dispute over the sharing of personal resources and money Reublin was banned from the local community and returned to southwest Germany in 1531, where he was again evangelizing in Rottenburg. Sometime later he left the Anabaptist movement. Around 1535 Reublin was in correspondence with the Reformed theologian Heinrich Bullinger.
In August 1554 Reublin appears once in Basel.
Little is known about his last years.
