Coming from a former prestigious and wealthy Swiss family, Samuel Urlsperger, a German Lutheran theologian with pietistic orientations, was born in in the Swabian town of Kirchheim unter Teck where he attended the local town school and the gymnasium of Blaubeuren Abbey.
He came from a former prestigious and wealthy Hungarian family that, during the Thirty Years' War, was forced to emigrate like many other Protestants in Hungary and Styria due to religious persecution by the Habsburg authorities. 
