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 and has never received any formal education.
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. 
