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Dirk Janssen, after 1719 a Mennonite Ältester (Elder) of the [[Danzig Old Flemish Mennonites|Old Flemish congregation]] (called <em>Klerkschen</em> or [[Huiskoopers|&lt;em&gt;Huiskopers&lt;/em&gt;]]) at [[Danzig (Poland)|Danzig]], [[West Prussia|West Prussia]], a brother of Ältester Anthony Janssen (d. 1725), who in 1725, after the death of the Dutch Ältester [[Gameren, Adriaen van (d. 1725)|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 as mit-Ältester from 1733 to 1739, and Ältester until his death in 1750.


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

Mannhardt, Herman Gottlieb. <em>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</em>. Danzig: Danziger Mennonitengemeinde, 1919: 89 f.

Schapansky, Henry. <em>Mennonite Migrations (and the Old Colony, Russia)</em>. New Westminster, BC: Henry Schapansky, 2006: 114.


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