- Michael Wohlfahrt
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Michael Wohlfahrt (1687–1741), aka Michael Welfare, was a religious leader who assisted Conrad Beissel in leading the Ephrata Community in Pennsylvania.
Wohlfahrt was born in Memel in the Duchy of Prussia (now Klaipėda in Lithuania), but emigrated to North America.
In 1725, he was baptised by Conrad Beissel, and when the Conestoga Brethren congregation suffered a schism, he strongly supported Beissel. After the foundation of the Ephrata Community in 1732, Wohlfahrt took the name "Brother Agonius" and assisted Beissel in running the community.
External links
- Message from the MENNO-ROOTS-L archives, largely about Wohlfahrt
- "Brethern, Schwenkfelders and Other Plain People", an article which quotes some correspondence between Wohlfahrt and Benjamin Franklin
- An extended quote with commentary from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Categories:- 1687 births
- 1741 deaths
- Christian religious leaders
- American religious leaders
- People from Klaipėda
- People from the Duchy of Prussia
- People from Pennsylvania
- German emigrants to the United States
- American religious biography stubs
- Christian biography stubs
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