Author: Lucy Forney Bittinger
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267444601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Excerpt from German Religious Life in Colonial Times It is hoped that this caption, derived from the Ger man Vorwort, instead of the more usual Preface, may not seem affected in a book treating of matters Germanic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Lucy Forney Bittinger
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Category : Germans in the United States
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Author: Lucy Forney Bittinger
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230313078
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter ii the separatists The first German emigration to America was of Separatists and the earliest emigrants were nearly all of this religious persuasion. The Separatists were of two sorts: those who separated themselves from the organized churches, the Lutheran and Reformed, and those who did not come out from any church, but formed groups or loosely cohering sects of their own. The latter kind were most commonly thrust out by persecution; the former, the "churchly Separatists," as they are called by Goebel in his "Geschichte des Christlichen Lebens," often left the Babylon of some established church from an exaggerated opinion of ecclesiastical corruption and their own superior righteousness. First of the Separatist emigration in point of time, number and importance were the Mennonites. These followers of Menno Simon had had surcease from severe persecution for more than a century when Penn made known among the Dutch Mennonites the plans for a colony of religious freedom. The Princes of the House of Orange, beginning with William the Silent, had found the "Weaponless Christians"--their chosen name--so peaceable, harmless and industrious that they had granted the sect a toleration expressly denied Anabaptists by the Peace of Westphalia. Thus Holland became the natural refuge of the Mennonites, and the centre of their church;--from that land went out help to the poor brethren in Germany; there were printed their Bibles and hymn books and Confession of Faith, and the ponderous history of their martyrs. In Germany they were settled in the Pfalz, invited thither by the elector, Karl Ludwig, in 1671; also in Elsass, reinforced by " the Switzers which were fled thither from Zurich."' These Anabaptists of the Palatinate were said to be...
Author: Lucy F. Bittinger
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497832909
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Author: Lucy Forney Bittinger
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331114317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Excerpt from The Germans in Colonial Times If we would sup full of the horrors of war, pestilence and famine, or religious persecution with stake and fire and noisome prison, with midnight flight for conscience' sake, we can find these told in simple pathos in the stories of the Palatines of the Rhine, the Mennonites of Switzerland, the Moravians, or the tiny sect of the Schwenkfelders. If we would meet with good men or great, we may see here the gentle Pastorius, first pro testant against American slavery, or Conrad Weiser, whose adventurous life was largely filled with embassies to mighty Indian chiefs and nations, whom he held back from war from the white men's frontier, or, last but not least, William Penn, whose mighty figure dominates the history as its counterfeit presentment does the city he has builded beside the Delaware. And indeed time would fail us to tell of the many people and incidents, interesting, pathetic, humorous, or containing in them the germs of our present American development, which fill the annals of those Pennsylvania Germans and their kin in many States, whom the New England histo rian, Parkman, slurred over with the description, dull and ignorant boors, which character their descendants for the most part retain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Carl Edward Schneider
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266907404
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Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Excerpt from The German Church on the American Frontier: A Study in the Rise of Religion Among the Germans of the West, Based on the History of the Evangelischer Kirchenverein Des Westens (Evangelical Church Society of the West), 1840-1866 The story of the religious origins among the Germans in the West, however, is not so well known. Historical inter est has mainly centered about the German Churches in the East. Many of these originated in the Colonial Period and effected their accommodations to the life and mores of the New World, while participating at the same time in the rise Of the new republic on American soil. The story of the Ger man settlement in the East, therefore, belongs intrinsically to the history of the American people. It Should become increasingly apparent, however, that the German immi gration of the nineteenth century was in many respects as significant for the later development of the West as the pre-revolutionary immigration was important for the East. The varied socio-historical aspects of the Western devel opment Should be sufficiently attractive to invite serious study. Conditions prevailing in both Germany and America at the time favored the rise Of a Germanism which in the isolation of the Western frontier frequently sought to fur ther its cause independent not only of American influences but also of contacts with the Older German culture of the East. We are here dealing with the rise of a unique Ger man civilization which, sometimes divided against itself, did not begin to integrate with American culture until the national crisis of the Civil War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812291670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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In 1700, some 250,000 white and black inhabitants populated the thirteen American colonies, with the vast majority of whites either born in England or descended from English immigrants. By 1776, the non-Native American population had increased tenfold, and non-English Europeans and Africans dominated new immigration. Of all the European immigrant groups, the Germans may have been the largest. Aaron Spencer Fogleman has written the first comprehensive history of this eighteenth-century German settlement of North America. Utilizing a vast body of published and archival sources, many of them never before made accessible outside of Germany, Fogleman emphasizes the importance of German immigration to colonial America, the European context of the Germans' emigration, and the importance of networks to their success in America
Author: Philip L. Otterness
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801471168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as thirty thousand people left their homes, lured by rumors that Britain's Queen Anne would give them free passage overseas and land in America. They journeyed down the Rhine and eventually made their way to London, where they settled in refugee camps. The rumors of free passage and land proved false, but, in an attempt to clear the camps, the British government finally agreed to send about three thousand of the immigrants to New York in exchange for several years of labor. After their arrival, the Palatines refused to work as indentured servants and eventually settled in autonomous German communities near the Iroquois of central New York.Becoming German tracks the Palatines' travels from Germany to London to New York City and into the frontier areas of New York. Philip Otterness demonstrates that the Palatines cannot be viewed as a cohesive "German" group until after their arrival in America; indeed, they came from dozens of distinct principalities in the Holy Roman Empire. It was only in refusing to assimilate to British colonial culture—instead maintaining separate German-speaking communities and mixing on friendly terms with Native American neighbors—that the Palatines became German in America.
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