John Horsch (18 December 1867 in Giebelstadt - 7 October 1941 in Scottdale, Pennsylvania) was a German American Mennonite historian, writer, and editor.

He married Christine Funck and was the father of three sons and a daughter, Elizabeth Horsch Bender, wife of Harold S.

[1] John Horsch studied for two years at the Bavarian State Agricultural School at Würzburg, graduating with a diploma in 1886.

He was employed by John F. Funk in the Mennonite Publishing Company, where he did much of the editorial work on German language publications from 1887 to 1895.

He then served on the editorial staff of the Light and Hope Publishing Company in Cleveland, Ohio, before moving on to the Mennonite Publishing House in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, where he worked from 1908 to 1941.