Johannes Kelpius

Johannes Kelpius
Born	Johann Kelp c. 1667  Schäßburg, Principality of Transylvania
Died	1708 (aged 40–41) Germantown, Pennsylvania

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.

Selected Bibliography

• Kelpius, Johannes (170-) (in German), Kurtzer Begriff oder leichtes Mittel zu beten, odermit Gott zu reden 
• Kelpius, Johannes (1761) (in English), A Short, Easy, and Comprehensive Method of Prayer. Translated from the German and Published for a Farther Promotion, Knowledge and Benefit of Inward Prayer by a Lover of Internal Devotion., Philadelphia: Henry Miller, in Second-Street, next to the corner of Race-Street 
• Kelpius, Johannes (1763) (in English), A Short, Easy, and Comprehensive Method of Prayer. Translated from the German and Published for a Farther Promotion, Knowledge and Benefit of Inward Prayer by a Lover of Internal Devotion., Germantown, Pa.: Christopher Sower 
• Kelpius, Johannes; Sachse, Julius F. (trans.) (1917) (in English), The Diarium of Magister Johannes Kelpius, Lancaster, Pa.: Pennsylvania-German Society, https://archive.org/details/diariumofmagiste2425kelp/page/n73/mode/2up 

Resources

• Kelpius Society, kelpius.org, http://www.kelpius.org/