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Henry Muhlenberg

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. Muhlenberg was integral to the founding of the first Lutheran church body or denomination in North America, and is considered the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the United States.

For other people named Henry Muhlenberg, see Henry Muhlenberg (disambiguation).

The Reverend

Henry Muhlenberg

Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg

(1711-09-06)September 6, 1711
Einbeck, Electorate of Hanover, Germany

October 7, 1787(1787-10-07) (aged 76)

Trappe, Pennsylvania, U.S.

University of Halle

see Muhlenberg family

Pennsylvania Ministerium

Patriarch of the Lutheran church in America

Muhlenberg and his wife Anna Maria had a large family, and they and their descendants had a significant impact on colonial life in North America as pastors, military officers, and politicians. He and Anna Maria's descendants continued to be active in Pennsylvania and national political life.

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg is commemorated on October 7 in the in worship books and hymnals such as the Lutheran Book of Worship, Lutheran Worship, Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Lutheran Service Book, and in supplementary ecumenical common liturgies and lectionaries used by most Lutheran congregations in the United States and Canada.

Calendar of Saints

an ELCA-affiliated institution in Allentown, Pennsylvania is named in his honor.[7]

Muhlenberg College

The "Muhlenberg Monument", named Man of Vision and sculpted by American artist Stanley Wanlass, is located on the campus of Muhlenberg College.

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located near the college in Allentown, is named in his honor.

Lake Muhlenberg

The was added to the National Register of Historic Places, maintained by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior, in 2000.[9]

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg House

The Muhlenberg Building at 2900 Queens Lane in , a distinctive U-shaped two-story structure of Georgian and Federal architectural style with red brick, white wood, and limestone trim, served as the headquarters of Muhlenberg Press of the United Lutheran Church in America (ULCA) and its successor, Fortress Press of the Lutheran Church in America (LCA). It also contained the editorial offices of The Lutheran, the bi-monthly magazine of both the ULCA and the LCA.

Northwest Philadelphia

Muhlenberg family

Johann Christopher Kunze

Mann, William J. Life and Times of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Philadelphia: G.W. Frederick. 1888

Wolf, Edmund Jacob. The Lutherans in America; a story of struggle, progress, influence and marvelous growth, New York: J.A. Hill. 1889

Frick, William K. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, Lutheran Publication Society, 1902

Hermann Wellenreuther / Thomas Müller-Bahlke / A. Gregg Roeber: The Transatlantic World of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg in the Eighteenth Century. Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz (January 9, 2013),  978-3447069632

ISBN

Riforgiato, Leonard R. (1980). . Bucknell Univ Press. ISBN 9780838723791.

Missionary of Moderation: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg and the Lutheran Church in English America

Anglican Church

Biographical Sketches of memorable Christians of the Past

Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium

Holy Trinity, New Rochelle, NY

Early Evangelical Lutheran Heroes in America

. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

"Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior" 

. New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

"Muhlenberg, Heinrich Melchior" 

. Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.

"Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior"