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Dirks, Kornelius (19th century)Kornelius Dirks was ordained as minister of the Waldheim Mennonite Church in the Molotschna settlement in South Russia in 1876 and elder in 1877. When Mennonites of the Molotschna villages in the years after 1880 settled on the Kuban River he joined them and became the first elder of the Wohldemfürst-Alexandrodar Mennonite Church. Little is known about his life and activities. BibliographyDirks, Heinrich. Statistik der Mennonitengemeinden in Russland Ende 1905: Anhang zum Mennonitischem Jahrbuche 1904/5. Gnadenfeld : [H. Dirks], 1906: 36. Töws, C. P. Die Kubaner Ansiedlung. Steinbach, Man.: Echo-Verlag, 1953: 37. 
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