The correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg / edited and translated by John W. Kleiner and Helmut T. Lehmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787.

Contributor:

Kleiner, John W. (John Walter)

Lehmann, Helmut T.

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787--Correspondence.

Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior.

Lutheran Church--United States--Clergy--Correspondence.

Lutheran Church.

Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787.

Lutheran Church--Clergy.

United States.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

volumes <1-4> : portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Camden, Me. : Picton Press, ©1993-<c2010>

Summary:

"... A translation of Letters 1-127 (1740-1752) from 'Die Korrespondenz Heinrich Melchior Mühlenbergs: Aus der Anfangszeit des Deutschen Luthertums in Nordamerika, Band I: 1740-1752' von Kurt Aland"--Verso.

Rev. Muhlenberg was ordained at Leipzig in 1739 and was a pastor at Grosshennersdorf in Upper Lusatia and an inspector of an orphans' home 1739-1742. He immigrated to America in 1742 in answer to a call from three Lutheran congregations issued in 1741. He served in Philadelphia 1742-1779, New Hanover 1742-1761, Providence or Trappe 1742-1761, Germantown 1743-1745, and Trinity Church in New York City 1750-1751.

Contents:

v. 1. 1740-1747

v. 2. 1748-1752.

Notes:

Translation of: Die Korrenspondenz Heinrich Melchior Mühlenbergs.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787. Correspondence. English. Correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg.

ISBN:

0897250966

9780897250962

0897258789

9780897258784

0897252276

9780897252270

OCLC:

29373442