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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 ...
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.
The Lutheran Confessions: History and Theology of the Book of Concord (2012) Bodensieck, Julius, ed. The encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church (3 vol 1965) vol 1 and 3 online free; Brauer, James Leonard and Fred L. Precht, eds. Lutheran Worship: History and Practice (1993) Granquist, Mark. Lutherans in America: A New History (2015)
The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ (2004) Frey, Sylvia R. "The Visible Church: Historiography of African American Religion since Raboteau," Slavery and Abolition, Jan 2008, Vol. 29 Issue 1, pp 83–110; Hatch, Nathan O.
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]
Church at Iptingen, Rapp's home village. Johann Georg Rapp was born on November 1, 1757, to Rosine Berger and Hans Adam Rapp (1720–71) in the village of Iptingen, 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Stuttgart in the Duchy of Württemberg.