Commemorating 500 years of Anabaptism: Friends of Grebel European Tour
Historical travel tour for Grebel Alumni and friends is Sold out!
May 18-30, 2025
Explore 500 years of Anabaptist history on a European heritage tour with staff, alumni, and friends of Conrad Grebel University College. Visit significant sites that will bring to life the stories of Conrad Grebel, Menno Simons, Jacob Hutter, Pilgram Marpeck, Dirk Willems, Jakob Amman, and other important Anabaptist leaders. See the historic Dutch village of Zaanse Schans, take a cable car up a majestic mountain in the Alps, reflect in a cave where Anabaptists worshipped in secret, and stay in the homes of hospitable locals. Also, explore art and culture in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Switzerland. Finish the tour with other Anabaptists from around the world at a Mennonite World Conference 500th Anniversary Celebration of the first adult re-baptism in Zurich.
Tour leaders Troy Osborne and David Y Neufeld will provide expert historical commentary.
As of January 11, 2024 we are FULLY BOOKED!
Itinerary and details related to cost and deposits are available now on our tour page at Tourmagination.
See the video below for an information session we hosted in November 2023.
Your hosts
Alongside TourMagination, Grebel history professors Troy Osborne and David Neufeld will be your travel guides through these significant locations.
Watch the joint information session with TourMagination
Troy Osborne
Troy Osborne is a historian whose research and teaching interests center generally on Mennonite history and the Reformation, particularly on the development of the Dutch Anabaptist tradition. His research uses discipline records and political appeals to trace the development of a Mennonite identity within the Dutch Republic and one that extended transnationally across Europe. A professor of History and Theological Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, he teaches courses on the sixteenth-century Reformations, the Radical Reformation, Mennonite Studies, and an introductory survey of European History.
David Neufeld
David Neufeld is a historian of religion, culture, and everyday life in early modern Europe. His research and writing examine post-Reformation dynamics of conflict and coexistence, processes of minority formation, and archival cultures and practices through investigation of the experience of Anabaptists. He teaches in the areas of the history of premodern Europe and the world, the history of Christianity, colonial Latin American history, and historiographical methods. He is associate director of the Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies at Conrad Grebel University College.
