Pieters, Dirk (d. ca. 1604)
Dirk Pieters, also called Derk Pieters van Nierop, was in 1580 a preacher of the Frisian Mennonite congregation at Nieuwe Niedorp. He is said to have been of a peaceful disposition, trying to eliminate the schisms that had arisen among the Dutch Mennonites. He joined the Waterlanders and became a preacher at Amsterdam, where he died about 1604.
Bibliography
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1876): 37.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: I, Nos. 480, 531; II, Nos. 834, 1361.
Author(s) | Nanne van der Zijpp |
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Date Published | 1959 |
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Pieters, Dirk (d. ca. 1604)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 28 Mar 2025. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Pieters,_Dirk_(d._ca._1604)&oldid=132255.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1959). Pieters, Dirk (d. ca. 1604). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 28 March 2025, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Pieters,_Dirk_(d._ca._1604)&oldid=132255.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 174. All rights reserved.
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