Lajos Hencsey (Szentpéterúr 1814 - Zürich 1844) was a Hungarian locksmith or blacksmith who became leader of Samuel Heinrich Fröhlich's Nazarener Church in Transylvania which continues in Romania with around 1,000 members.[1]
This group is usually distinguished from the "Nazarenes" of Swiss silkweaver and prophet Johann Jakob Wirz and started a group called the Nazarenes, or in German Nazarener in Basel in 1830s.[2] However one theory holds that the nineteen-year Hencsey came to Switzerland where he met the disciples of Wirz and adopted their name instead of other numerous names circulating for Frohlich's followers.[3]
References
edit- ^ The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck - 1910 "For Nazarene as applied to Jesus Christ and his disciples see Nazareth. 1. Adherents of Jacob Wirz, a silk-weaver ... with Frohlich and his adherents in Thurgau or near Strasburg, brought this type of Christianity to their native land."
- ^ Kirchen und Sekten: Führer durch die religiösen Gruppen der Gegenwart Fritz Blanke - 1959 "Neutäufer (Gemeinschaft evangelisch Taufgesinnter, Fröhlichianer, Nazarener, nicht mit den Nazarenern des J.J. Wirz zu verwechseln) Von dem aargauischen Pfarrer Samuel Heinrich Fröhlich-Brunn- schweiler 1830 gegründet."
- ^ Religious dissent between the modern and the national: Nazarenes p55 Bojan Aleksov - 2006 "According to this theory, when Hencsey came to Switzerland he met the disciples of Wirz and adopted their name instead of other numerous names circulating for Frohlich's followers."
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