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Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (born Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg; September 6, 1711 – October 7, 1787), was a German-born Lutheran clergyman and missionary. Born in Einbeck, Muhlenberg immigrated to the Province of Pennsylvania in response to demands from Lutherans for missionary work in the colony.
The Pennsylvania Ministerium was the first Lutheran church body in North America.With the encouragement of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711–1787), the Ministerium was founded at a Church Conference of Lutheran clergy on August 26, 1748.
As one of the few Lutheran pastors in the region, he was particularly involved in the construction of schools and churches, thus contributing to the emergence of the Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania. [3] In 1721 he founded the first Lutheran parish and witnessed the building of St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Germantown, a process for which ...
In January 2016, the seminary's board announced a merger with the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. [7] [8] While originally planned as a closure of both schools with the formation of a new institution, this plan was canceled over accreditation issues [9] and a merger of the two schools was completed July 1m 2017, under the name United Lutheran Seminary.
Muhlenberg was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna Maria (Weiser) and Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg. His father, an immigrant from Germany, was considered the founder of the Lutheran Church in North America. His maternal grandfather was Pennsylvania German colonial leader Conrad Weiser.
1748 — First Lutheran church body in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium [5] 1751 — First hospital in America, the Pennsylvania Hospital [6] 1754 — First (and only) [failed verification] surrender by George Washington, Fort Necessity [7] 1762 — First lectures on anatomy in North America, Dr. William Shippen, Philadelphia [8]
One of the last institutions Passavant founded was the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary. [26] Many of the social welfare institutions Passavant founded would later join as the Lutheran Services in America, the largest church social program in the United States. [27]
Benjamin Kurtz (February 28, 1795 – December 29, 1865) was a German-American Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was part of the revivalist movement of the Lutheran Church in the 19th century, ran the Lutheran faith-based newspaper Lutheran Observer, founded the Lutheran faith-based Missionary Institute (Susquehanna University) in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, and assisted in the founding of the ...