The Mountain Boy of Wildhaus: A Life of Ulric Zwingli

A book prepared in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Zwingli’s birthday in 1884, American minister David Van Horne’s study of “the mountain boy of Wildhaus” is warm and personable, giving special attention to Zwingli’s early years. Van Horne hopes to appeal to younger readers with this focus on Zwingli’s formative years, noting that “in each aspect of his life, Zwingli presents a bold and striking figure, well calculated to arrest the attention of American youth.” But for readers young and old, the text provides an interesting study of the Swiss reformer as a young man.