Janssen, Dirk (d. 1750)

Dirk Janssen, after 1719 a Mennonite elder of the Old Flemish congregation (called Klerkschen or Huiskopers) at Danzig, West Prussia, a brother of Elder Anthony Janssen (d. 1725), who in 1725, after the death of the Dutch Elder Adriaan van Gammeren, at the request of the Danzig Old Flemish congregations of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, moved with his family from Danzig to Amsterdam, where he served as an elder September 1725-1 November 1733. Then he returned to Danzig, serving there until his death in 1750.

Bibliography

Mannhardt, H. G., Mark Jantzen, and John D. Thiesen. The Danzig Mennonite Church: Its Origin and History from 1569-1919. Cornelius H. Wedel historical series, 14. North Newton, Kan: Bethel College, 2007.

Mannhardt, Herman Gottlieb. Die Danziger Mennonitengemeinde: ihre Entstehung und ihre Geschichte von 1569-1919 : Denkschrift zur Erinnerung an das 350 jährigie Bestehen der Gemeinde und an die Jahrhundertfeier unseres Kirchenbaus am 14. September 1919. Danzig: Danziger Mennonitengemeinde, 1919: 89 f.

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, pp. 92-93. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

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