death_date death_place religion birth_place children buried nationality profession article_title parents birth_date spouse residence signature ordination name church occupation
19 january 1735 germantown , philadelphia , pennsylvania , united states protestant christian , pietist anabaptist schriesheim , palatinate , germany johann jr. -lrb- sons -rrb- and christina and unnamed infant -lrb- valentine daughters -rrb- , johannes , and alexander mack , upper , united states burying ground , germantown , philadelphia , pennsylvania german palatine miller alexander mack
 johann mack -lrb- mother -rrb- phillip mack -lrb- father -rrb- and christina fillbrun 27 july 1679 anna margarethe kling schriesheim , bad berleburg , germany and germantown , philadelphia , , pennsylvania , united states palatinate ; east friesland ; and schwarzenau alexander mack signature.png minister , elder alexander mack schwarzenau brethren -lrb- german baptist -rrb- composer , elder and minister , philanthropist , theologian
alexander mack

alexander mack -lrb- c. 27 july 1679 -- 19 january 1735 -rrb- was the leader and first minister of the schwarzenau brethren -lrb- or german baptists -rrb- 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 .
