# James the Anabaptist — Candide character guide

> James the Anabaptist in Candide by Voltaire.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the honest Anabaptist James, the charitable Anabaptist James, The Anabaptist James, Honest James, the good Anabaptist

**First appearance:** 0005-iv-how-candide-found-his-old-master-pangloss-and-what-happened-to-them

## Who they are

A kind Anabaptist who helps Candide and Pangloss in Lisbon before dying in a shipwreck.

## In the story

### [How Candide Made His Escape from the Bulgarians, and What Afterwards Became of Him](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/candide_se/chapters/iii-how-candide-made-his-escape-from-the-bulgarians-and-what-afterwards-became-of-him)

A kind Anabaptist who takes Candide in, cleans him, gives him food and money, and offers to teach him a trade.

### [IV: How Candide Found His Old Master Pangloss, and What Happened to Them](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/candide_se/chapters/iv-how-candide-found-his-old-master-pangloss-and-what-happened-to-them)

Charitably takes Pangloss in, pays for his cure, and hires him as bookkeeper; later takes Candide and Pangloss on a ship to Lisbon.

### [V: Tempest, Shipwreck, Earthquake, and What Became of Doctor Pangloss, Candide, and James the Anabaptist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/candide_se/chapters/v-tempest-shipwreck-earthquake-and-what-became-of-doctor-pangloss-candide-and-james-the-anabaptist)

Attempts to help during the storm, is struck by a brutish sailor, then drowns after saving that same sailor.

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