Talk:Hans Herr

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Origins of Hans Herr, research by Hanspeter Jecker

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage Magazine [1]https://mennonitelife.org/about/publications/ published an article by Swiss researcher Hanspeter Jecker in their July 2019 issue (Volume 42, Number 3, pages 70-81) that argues

1. Hans Herr and his brother Christian Herr did not come from Zurich, but instead from Blumenstein, in the canton of Bern,
2. Their wives came from the Berner Oberland, from Latterbach near Erlenback in the Simmental in the canton of Bern,
3. Their wives were Elsbeth and Margret Lötscher, a family with Anabaptist connections from as early as 1660,
4. Anabaptist thinking came into the Herr family primarily through women, the mother of the Herr brothers and their wives,
5. Hans Herr was born in 1650, and not 1639.

Alas, the issues of the magazine are available on-line only to subscribers, so I cannot link to the material directly. Wjw1961 (talk) 17:12, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]