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Jelle Jansz Schütt: mayor and leader of the Mennonite congregation at [[Friedrichstadt (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)|Friedrichstadt]] on the Eider, Germany; born in [[Ameland (Friesland, Netherlands)|Ameland]] in Holland, 11 November 1802, died 18 January 1895, rendered outstanding service to the congregation in fifty years of untiring devotion and work. On 3 January 1886, he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his service. In the [[Hamburg-Altona Mennonite Church (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)|Hamburg-Altona]] congregation the name Schütt is also found among the outstanding leaders.
= Bibliography =
Dollinger, R. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Geschichte der Mennoniten in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg und Lübeck</em>. Neüminster, 1930: 61 ff.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Mennonitisches Lexikon</em>. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. IV, 119.

<em class="gameo_bibliography">Mennonitische Blätter</em> (1885): 21.
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