Hendrik Arend van Gelder

Hendrik Arend van Gelder (3 November 1825, in Wormerveer – 17 June 1899, in Haarlem) was a Dutch Mennonite teacher and minister.

He was trained at the Amsterdam Mennonite seminary and first served in Mensingeweer 1851–1853.

He married Rinske Feikema of Franeker in 1853 in her birthplace.

[1] Van Gelder wrote a history of the Mennonites in Haarlem that was never published.

From 1869 till his death 30 years later, he was also a member of the Teylers First Society.