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Moravian University is the sixth-oldest college in the United States and the first to educate women in the original 13 colonies. It traces its roots to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in 1742, as the second boarding school for young women in the U.S. behind just the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans.
The Moravians in Germany, whose central settlement remains at Herrnhut, are highly active in education and social work. The American Moravian Church sponsors Moravian College and Seminary, recognized as the sixth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The largest concentration of Moravians today is in Tanzania.
The History of the Unity of the Brethren (trans. by C. Daniel Crews) (1992) Shawe, C. H. The Spirit of the Moravian Church (1977) Teich, Mikulas, ed., Bohemia in History, Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 384; Tillman, Benjamin; Imprints on Native Lands: The Miskito-Moravian Settlement Landscape in Honduras; Tucson 2011 (University of ...
When the Bethlehem Female Seminary became the Moravian Female Seminary in 1785, it restructured its curriculum into five categories. These subjects were spiritual and moral guidance, intellectual and cultural pursuits, vocational training, social cultivation, and physical exercise. [4]
Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society-a publication that ran in volumes from 1868 to 2000. Journal of Moravian History-a biannual publication and expanded version of Transactions, created in 2006 in collaboration with the Moravian Archives and now published by Pennsylvania State University Press. It features scholarly articles ...
Benigna Zinzendorf, also known as Henrietta Benigna Justine Zinzendorf von Watteville (1725–1789), was the founder of the first boarding school for girls in the British American colonies, which became Moravian University and Moravian Academy.
Moravian Academy is a preschool through 12th-grade independent, co-educational, college preparatory school in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Moravian Academy is the ninth oldest independent school in the United States.
Bethlehem Digital History Project, Moravian University, retrieved online December 23, 2022. "David “Father” Nitschmann (1676-1758), oil on canvas by Johann Valentin Haidt (1700-1780)." Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Moravian Archives, retrieved from the web archives December 23, 2022.