George Henry Loskiel

Georg Heinrich Loskiel ( born November 7, 1740 in Rinda, Kurland, † February 23, 1814 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ) was a deutschbaltischer preacher, writer and bishop of the Brethren congregations in Vidzeme, Saxony, Silesia, and Pennsylvania. He was also the author of hymns and gave out some hymnals for Brethren.

Life

Georg Heinrich Loskiel on November 7, 1740 in Rinda (then Angermuende in a circle Pilten, Kurland ) was born as the son of the pastor of the German Lutheran church of the same name. His father had sent him to the seminary of the Moravian Church in Barby, where he received his education. Since 1765 Loskiel was in various theological institutes in Moravian communities in present-day Latvia operates; 1785-1789 he was the chief priest of the Moravian Church in Livonia. During this time he wrote and published a "History of the Missions of the Evangelical Brethren among the Indians in North America" ​​( Barby 1789). In the years 1789-1801 he worked in St. Petersburg, Saxony and Silesia. He founded the educational institutions in Kleinwelka and free grace and gave a devotional book " Something for the heart on the way to eternity " out ( Bautzen 1801), which contains 366 observations and has gained wide acceptance.

In 1801 Loskiel traveled to North America, where he was president of the Directorate of the Pennsylvania Municipalities and preacher of the Bethlehem municipality and in 1802 bishop of the Brethren churches in Pennsylvania. In his last years of life still " prayers and reflections in verse on all days of the year " by him ( Reichenbach 1813 ) published.

Writings

  • Passion and Easter vocals,, 1781.
  • History of the Mission of the Evangelical Lischen brother among the Indians in North America. Leipzig, 1789 (History of the Moravian Mission among the North American Indians in three parts (London, 1794) )
  • Something for the heart on the way to eternity - it first appeared in Bautzen in 1801, and afterwards in Leipzig; a particularly fine edition is published in Basel in 1806, which is then repeated several times, in 1822, 1825 and perhaps more often.
  • Extempore on a wagon; a metrical narrative of a journey from Bethlehem, Pa. , to the Indian town of Goshen, Ohio, in the autumn of 1803 by George Henry Loskiel. Tr. with notes by J. Max Hark. Lancaster, Pa. , S. H. Zahm, 1887.
  • Prayers and reflections in verse on all days of the year Reichenbach, 1813
  • Seven Passion sermons Berlin: H.H. Wohlgemuth, 1839.
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