{{Infobox person | name = Heinrich Funck | caption = Palatinate (region) | birth_name = | birth_date = c. 1697 | birth_place = | death_date = 1760 | death_place = Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, | death_cause = | resting_place = Delp Burying Ground in Harleysville, Pennsylvania. | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | citizenship = | other_names = | known_for = First Mennonite Bishop in America | education = | occupation = Miller, minister, author | years_active = | spouse = Anne Meyer (ca 1700–1758) | children = *John Funk (1727–1807) *Henry Funk (1728–1817) *Christian Funk (1731–1811) *Abraham Funk (1734–1788) | parents = Heinrich M. Funck and Barbara Hauberger Frey | footnotes = }}
'''Heinrich Funck''' ({{circa|1697}}–1760) was a mill operator, religious author and a Mennonite bishop in America.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Funck,_Heinrich_%28d._1760%29 |title= Funck, Heinrich (d. 1760) |publisher= Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online |author= |accessdate=November 8, 2015}}</ref>
==Biography== Heinrich Funck is commonly believed to have been born in the Palatinate region of Germany. No baptismal record is known. He was a descendant of Swiss Mennonites who were expelled from Bern, Switzerland, in the 17th century based largely on their religious beliefs.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Wenger|first=John C.|title=Funk (Funck) family|url=http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/F865ME.html|encyclopedia=The Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online|accessdate=1 June 2013}}</ref> Funck arrived in Philadelphia in 1717 with his family and other German Palatines, seeking a place to freely practice their Mennonite faith, including Dielman Kolb (1691–1756), who became an early Mennonite minister in Pennsylvania.<ref name="abriefhistory">{{cite book|last=Fretz|first=Abraham James|title=A Brief History of Bishop Henry Funck and Other Funk Pioneers|year=1899|publisher=Mennonite Publishing Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KfwcAAAAYAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Kolb,_Dielman_%281691-1756%29 |title= Kolb, Dielman (1691–1756) |publisher= Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online |author= |accessdate=November 8, 2015}}</ref>
During 1719, he settled in Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In about 1720, Funck married Anne Meyer (ca 1700–1758), daughter of Mennonite immigrant Christian Meyer (1676–1751). They would be the parents of ten children.<ref name="abriefhistory"/> Heinrich Funck was the grandfather of Joseph Funk and of Jacob Funk, the original owner of the historic Jacob Funk House and Barn.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Funk_%28Funck%29_family |title= Funk (Funck) family |publisher= Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online |author= |accessdate=November 8, 2015}}</ref>
In 1725, Heinrich Funck built and operated a grist mill on Indian Creek in Franconia Township in what is today Telford, Pennsylvania. In 1738, Heinrich Funck, together with others including Dielman Kolb and Christian Meyer, was instrumental in purchasing land for the Salford Mennonite meeting house. The Salford Mennonite Congregation itself had dated to 1717. He served for many years as bishop in the Franconia Mennonite Conference.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Martyrs%27_Mirror |title= Martyrs' Mirror |publisher= Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online |author= |accessdate=November 8, 2015}}</ref>
From 1745 to 1748, together with Dielman Kolb, he supervised the translation of the classic 1660 Dutch religious history ''Martyrs Mirror'' into the German language. Funck also wrote two German-language religious books: ''Ein Spiegel der Taufe'' (A Mirror of Baptism), published in 1744, and ''Eine Restitution, Oder eine Erklaerung einiger Haupt-puncten des Gesetzes'' (Restitution, or an Explanation of Several Principal Points of the Law), published posthumously by his children in 1763.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Franconia_Mennonite_Conference_%28Mennonite_Church_USA%29 |title= Franconia Mennonite Conference |publisher= Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online |author= |accessdate=November 8, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Spiegel_der_Taufe,_Ein |title= Spiegel der Taufe, Ein |publisher= Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online |author= |accessdate=November 8, 2015}}</ref>
Heinrich Funck died during 1760 and was buried in the Delp Burying Ground in Harleysville, Pennsylvania. A memorial gravestone there lists him as Henry Funk.<ref>{{cite web|title=Delp Burying Ground|url=http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/tsimages/delp-ind-crk.htm|work=USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project|publisher=USGenWeb Archives|accessdate=1 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/tsimages/delp-ind-crk.htm |title= Delp Burying Ground |publisher= Montgomery County PA USGenWeb Archives |author= |accessdate=November 8, 2015}}</ref>
==See also== *Funkite
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==Other sources== *Boldt, Andrea; Werner Enninger, Delbert L. Gratz (1997) ''Mennonites in Transition From Switzerland to America'' (Masthof Press) {{ISBN|9781883294472}} *Kasdorf, Julia Spicher (2009) ''The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life: Essays and Poems'' (Penn State Press) {{ISBN|9780271035444}} *Ruth, John L. (1984) ''Maintaining the Right Fellowship: a narrative account of life in the oldest Mennonite community in North America'' (Franconia Mennonite Conference) {{ISBN|1-59244-788-0}}
==Related Reading== *Wenger, John Christian (1937) ''History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Conference'' (Franconia Mennonite Historical Society)
==External links== *[http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm ''Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians''] *[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029463811 ''Mennonite Church History'' (1906) Hartzler, Jonas Smucker; Kauffman, Daniel (Mennonite Book and Tract Company. Scottdale, PA)] *[http://franconiaconference.org/introducing-salford-mennonite-church/ Salford Mennonite Church website]
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