Sulzig-Joggi the Last Heretic to be executed In Europe.

The slaughter and disintegration of Jacob Schmidlin (also spelled Schmidli) (1699-1747) a Catholic peasant farmer from Lucerne, who was executed on 27 May 1747 for heresy. He was not a Pietist himself but was accused of sympathizing with the Pietist movement, a Protestant reform effort emphasizing personal faith and Bible study.  Schimdlin was the last heretic in Europe to be executed by order of the Catholic Church, it was so macabre for its time, it beggars belief.  It was the time of enlightenment, English astronomer James Bradley (1692-1762) announces the discovery of Earth’s nutation, or wobble, three years earlier in 1744.  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) one of the enlightening founding fathers of America was probably doing one of his scientific experiments.  While some 6,000 plus kilometers away to the east, the Catholic Church was burning a so-called pro-pietist heretic on a stake in Lucerne,

Switzerland.  I use the term slaughter, and the disintegration, for Jacob Schmidlin death.  The information states the execution in 1747 took place outside the city of Lucerne.  First strangled and then burned, the aim was for nothing to remain of him after the verdict of the authorities.  As a religious dissenter, he (Schmidlin) was seen as a threat to the state and the common good in the Ancien Régime, even though he was simply a “quiet man in the countryside.”

Sulzig-Joggi was the nickname of Jacob Schmidlin, where Sulzig means the area/location where he farmed from 1732. Joggi means the Swiss-German nickname for Jacobus or Johannes.