Johannes Kelpius

Johannes Kelpius (1667 - 1708), born Johann Kelp, was a composer, musician, and mystic of German descent, associated with Pietistic Lutheranism and the millenarianism of Johann Jacob Zimmermann, whose disciples, the Hamburg Group, Kelpius led to establish a religious hermitage in the area of Wissahickon Creek in the Province of Pennsylvania, a community later referred to variously as the Wissahickon Hermits, the Hermits of the Ridge, the Mystics of the Wissahickon, and the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness.