Johann Michael Hahn

Michael Hahn (2 February 1758 – 20 January 1819) was a German Pietist, Theosophist and the founder of the Hahn'schen Gemeinschaft.

He was born into a peasant family on 2 February 1758, at Altdorf near Stuttgart.

[1] At the age of seventeen he claimed to have had a vision lasting for three hours.

From that time on he attended Pietist meetings, despite his father's opposition which drove him from his home.

He became a preacher, living on the estate of Duchess Frances at Sindlingen near Herrenberg in Württemberg, where he died on 20 January 1819.

The 'Five Brothers Painting', a group portrait of the personalities of Württemberg Pietism – left to right, Johannes Schnaitmann, Anton Egeler, Johann Martin Schäffer, Immanuel Gottlieb Kolb, Johann Michael Hahn .