Alexander Mack

Alexander Mack
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Church	Schwarzenau Brethren (German Baptist)
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Ordination	Minister, elder
Personal details
Born	27 July 1679 Schriesheim, Electoral Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire
Died	19 January 1735(1735-01-19) (aged 55) Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Buried	Upper Burying Ground, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States[1]
Nationality	German Palatine
Denomination	Anabaptist
Residence	Schriesheim, Palatinate; Friesland, Netherlands; and Schwarzenau, Bad Berleburg, Germany and Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Parents	Johann Phillip Mack (father) and Christina Fillbrun Mack (mother)
Spouse	Anna Margarethe Kling
Children	Johann Valentine, Johannes, and Alexander Mack, Jr. (sons) and Christina and unnamed infant (daughters)
Occupation	Composer, elder and minister, philanthropist, theologian
Profession	Miller
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Alexander Mack (c. 27 July 1679^[a] – 19 January 1735) was a German clergyman and the leader and first minister of the Schwarzenau Brethren (or German Baptists) in the Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein, community of modern-day Bad Berleburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Mack founded the Brethren along with seven other Radical Pietists in Schwarzenau in 1708. Mack and the rest of the early Brethren emigrated to the United States in the mid-18th century, where he continued to minister to the Brethren community until his death.