Walter, Jakob (18th-19th centuries)
Jakob Walter, a bishop of the Hutterian Brethren in Moravia, who under the pressure of the government migrated to Little Russia in 1784, where they lived for 58 years, and then went to Russia, founding the Bruderhof Radichev and later also Hutterthal.
Bibliography
Beck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967: 640, 1642.
Brons, Anna. Ursprung, Entwickelung und Schicksale der . . . Mennoniten. Norden, 1891: 173, 295.
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