Marie Wulf was a Danish preacher

Preacher

Preacher is a term for someone who preaches sermons or gives homilies. A preacher is distinct from a theologian by focusing on the communication rather than the development of doctrine. Others see preaching and theology as being intertwined...

; a pietist and later a follower of the Moravian Church.

Background

Wulf moved to Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 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

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Biography

During the great plague of 1711, she translated the peitistic 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.

Other Source

• Reich, Ebbe Kløvedal: Kun et gæstekammer 1999
• Hvidt, Marie: Det gyldne Klenodie 1995
• Bobé, Louis: Johs. Ewald 1943