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Dokkum Dokkum is a Dutch fortified city in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland. It has 12,669 inhabitants (February 8, 2020). The fortifications of Dokkum are well preserved and are known as the ''bolwerken'' (bulwarks). ...
, 17 October 1712 - Haarlem, 19 October 1792) was a Dutch
Mennonite Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. The name is derived from the founder of the movement, Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings about Reformed Christianity during the Radi ...
teacher, minister and one of the first members of
Teylers Eerste Genootschap Teylers Eerste Genootschap (English: ''Teyler's First Society''), also known as the Godgeleerd Genootschap (''Theological Society'') is one of the societies founded within the Teylers Stichting as a result of the will of the Dutch 18th-century m ...
(Teylers First or Theological Society) from 1778 until his death. He was the founder of the "Doopsgezinde Schaar" (a Mennonite institution).A.J. van der Aa ''et al.'' (1877)
Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden Part XX
p.475 (Dutch)
He had one son we know of, IJnze Wijnalda. Age Wijnalda was the second son of Pieter Harmens and was knighted by and received a crest from the King of Great Britain for services to the crown - presumably for bravery in battle, since there is a helm on his coat of arms. He was trained at the Remonstrant seminary of Amsterdam and first served in Emden 1733-1736 before moving to Haarlem.Agge Wynalda
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1712 births 1792 deaths 18th-century Anabaptist ministers Dutch Mennonites Members of Teylers Eerste Genootschap Mennonite ministers People from Dokkum {{Netherlands-bio-stub