Matthäus Stach
Matthäus Stach (sometimes
anglicized to Matthew Stach) (March 4, 1711, Mankovice – December 21, 1787, Bethabara) was a Moravian missionary in Greenland.[1]
Life
Matthäus Stach was born in Mankendorf in
Lichtenfels. In 1741, he made a return trip to Germany where he was both ordained into the ministry and became married.[2]
Matthäus and Rosina Stach left the Greenland mission and returned to Germany in 1771. The following year he was called to the Moravian settlement in Bethabara, North Carolina. Over the rest of his life, he and his wife Rosina operated the local Moravian boys' school. Stach died in 1787 at Bethabara.[3]
References
- ^ Stach, Matthäus (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie)
- ^ Stach, Matthäus (glaubensstimme biographien)
- ^ "Matthaeus Stach Brings Greenlanders to Bethlehem" (PDF) (62). Bethlehem, Pa.: Moravian Archives. March 2011.
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Other sources
- Vormbaum, Reinhold (1853) Matthäus Stach und Johann Beck: Missionare der Brüdergemeinde in Grönland und ihre Mitarbeiter (W. H. Scheller)
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