Friedrich Wilhelm Lange, related to Wilhelm Lange, became a member of the Gnadenfeld Mennonite Church, South Russia, in 1837 and was elected minister in 1838 and elder in 1841. Lange was an unusually successful teacher and had taught in Prussia. Heinrich Franz I was his pupil. Lange favored a warm piety and was a personal friend of Eduard Wüst. Hermann Lenzmann related, "Wüst, who came to our church, was throughout his life in close brotherly contact with my father and his predecessor, Elder Fr. W. Lange, and frequently preached in their congregation just as they preached in his." Lange performed Wüst's marriage ceremony (Menn. Jahrbuch 1904-5, 78). He was a great promoter of evangelism, missions, abstinence, and music. Because of personal difficulties, he resigned in 1849 and accepted a position as teacher and assistant minister in the Swedish Lutheran Church at Schlangendorf on the Dniepr River, Ukraine.

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