Marie Wulf (August 1685 – January 27, 1738), was a Danish

preacher A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people. Less common are preachers who Open-air preaching, preach on the street, or those whose message is not necessarily religious, but who preach com ...

; a

pietist Pietism (), also known as Pietistic Lutheranism, is a movement within Lutheranism that combines its emphasis on biblical doctrine with an emphasis on individual piety and living a holy Christianity, Christian life. Although the movement is ali ...

and later a follower of the

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Wulf moved to

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to keep household for her brother Conrad, a clerk at the royal court, from the border to Germany, where pietism was strong. She married the builder Mathias Wulf (1690–1728) in ca. 1714. She was the maternal grandmother of

Johannes Ewald Johannes Ewald (18 November 174317 March 1781) was a Danish national dramatist, psalm writer and poet. The lyrics of a song from one of his plays are used for one of the Danish national anthems, ''Kong Christian stod ved højen mast'' whic ...

. During the great plague of 1711, she translated the pietistic ''Seelen-Schatz'' by C. Scriver to Danish. After the great 1728 fire of Copenhagen, she housed many homeless in her house, and began to preach the pietistic faith; she later begun to use the inn ''Den gyldne Oxe'' (The Golden Oxe), which became referred to as ''Den hellige Oxe'' (The Holy Oxe), while her son-in-law Enevold Ewald did the same in Vajsenhuskirken. In 1731, she met Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and became the leader of the female branch of the Moravian church in Copenhagen. In 1733, the monarch formed a commission on the demand of the Lutheran church to examine the activities of Wulf and Ewald. She was acquitted from any punishment, but the inn banned her from her localities. It is not known whether she continued her sermons in any other place.''Marie Wulf (1685 - 1738)'' (KVINFOs bibliotek)
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* Reich, Ebbe Kløvedal: ''Kun et gæstekammer'' 1999 * Hvidt, Marie: ''Det gyldne Klenodie'' 1995 * Bobé, Louis: ''Johs. Ewald'' 1943 {{DEFAULTSORT:Wulf, Marie 18th-century Danish people 1685 births 1738 deaths 18th-century religious leaders Danish Christian religious leaders Women Protestant religious leaders Danish people of the Moravian Church 18th-century Danish women

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