Michael Schlatter
Michael Schlatter (14 July 1716 – 31 October 1790) was an American German Reformed clergyman.
Biography
Schlatter was born in
In 1751, he returned to Europe to report on his work. In Amsterdam, he published (1751) a journal of his experiences and transactions in America, with an account of the Reformed congregations and their dearth of pastors. Of this book, he made a German translation (Frankfort, 1752), and afterward it was rendered into English by Rev. David Thomson, of Amsterdam, and distributed throughout Great Britain. As a result of Schlatter's appeal, £20,000 was raised in England and Holland for the establishment of free schools among the Germans in America. He also secured the assistance of six young preachers, and 700 Bibles.[2]
In March 1752, Schlatter returned to Philadelphia with the money and preachers, and in 1755 withdrew from his pastoral activities to become superintendent of the establishment of the schools among the Germans under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Knowledge of God among the Germans, a group of people from
In 1777, while still attached to the British Army, he refused to obey orders on account of sympathy with the colonial cause. He was imprisoned, and his house was plundered. He died near Philadelphia.
Family
He married Maria Henrica Schleidorn of New York City, and they had nine children, six of whom survived them.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d Hinke, William J. (1935). "Schlatter, Michael". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ . (subscription required) This work cites Helmstedt only as a "possibility."
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana. This publication in turn cites:
- Harbaugh, Henry, Life of Rev. Michael Schlatter (1857)
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. This publication in turn cites:
- Life by Rev. Henry Harbaugh (Philadelphia, 1857)
Further reading
- J. I. Good, History of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1725–1792, 1899
- M. Pritzker-Ehrlich, Michael Schlatter von St. Gallen (1716–1790), 1981
External links
- Harbaugh, Henry (1857). The life of Rev. Michael Schlatter; with a full account of his travels and labors among the Germans in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia; including his services as chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the war of the revolution, 1716 to 1790. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston.
- . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
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