November 22, 1672, Lang­en­reins­dorf, Crim­mit­schau, Zwick­au, Sax­o­ny.

1723, New­burgh, New York.

Falckner was the fourth son of Daniel Falck­ner, Lu­ther­an pas­tor at Lan­gen­reins­dorf. He en­tered the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Halle in 1693, as a stu­dent of the­ol­o­gy under A. H. Francke. Af­ter com­pleting his stu­dies, though, he de­cided the min­is­try was not for him. With his bro­ther Dan­i­el, who had just re­turned from Amer­i­ca, he ac­cept­ed, in Rot­ter­dam, a pow­er of at­tor­ney for the sale of Wil­liam Penn’s lands in Penn­syl­van­ia. In 1701, 10,000 acres of Penn’s lands were sold to Pro­vost An­dre­as Rud­man and other Swedes liv­ing on the Man­a­taw­ny. His as­soc­i­a­tion with Rud­man made Falck­ner re­con­sid­er the min­is­try, and he was or­dained on November 24, 1703, in the Swed­ish Church of Wi­ca­coa, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia, mak­ing him the first Lu­ther­an pas­tor or­dained in Amer­i­ca. His first as­sign­ment was pas­tor­al over­sight of Dutch settlers on the Man­a­taw­ny, near New Han­no­ver; but short­ly af­ter­ward Rud­man as­signed him to be pas­tor of Lu­ther­an con­gre­ga­tions in New York and Al­ba­ny. Falckner’s works in­clude:

• Grondlycke Onderricht (New York, 1708)

• Hughes, p. 385
• Stulken, p. 266

1. Auf! ihr Christ­en, Christi Glied­er
   • If Our All on Him We Ven­ture
   • Rise, Ye Child­ren of Salva­tion