Simon Sulzer

The sudden death of his father, the provost of Interlaken, forced him to turn to manual labor to support himself.

He worked as a barber in Strasbourg and attended lectures by Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito.

On the initiative of the Bern town council, he pursued additional studies in 1537 and took a master's degree.

Meanwhile, the older generation of reformers of Bern, Berchtold Haller and Franz Kolb, died, and a new direction was set by certain theologians from Strasbourg, to which he also adhered.

He endeavored to bring about the reconciliation of the German and Swiss churches, although he kept a relative distance from the Zwinglian and Calvinist position.