person
Jan van Leiden
the King of Münster
also: John of Leiden
The tailor who proclaimed himself king of the Anabaptist commune of Münster (1534-35); Rilke shows him shorn and shrunken, the crown gone too wide, while starvation clamors outside.
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- New Poems: The Other Part §19 The king had been shorn
Jan van Leiden, self-proclaimed king of the Anabaptist Münster commune (1534-35); shorn and defeated, his crown too wide, while the starving city clamors at his ears.
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