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Zion on the Mississippi : the settlement of the Saxon Lutherans in Missouri, 1839-1841
- Title
- Zion on the Mississippi : the settlement of the Saxon Lutherans in Missouri, 1839-1841 / by Walter O. Forster.
- Author
- Forster, Walter O.
- Publication
- Saint Louis : Concordia Publishing House, 1953.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | BX8061.M7 F6 1953 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 606 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps (some folded), facsimiles; 24 cm
- Summary
- Details the rise of Stephanism in Saxony from 1810-1837, and the subsequent migration of this religious group to Missouri in 1838- 1839.
- Alternative Title
- Saxon Lutherans in Missouri
- Subject
- Stephan, Martin, 1777-1846
- Lutheran Church>Missouri Synod > History
- Lutheran Church>Missouri Synod
- Saxon emigration (1838-1839)
- 1800 - 1899
- Lutherans > Missouri > History > 19th century
- Saxon emigration, 1838-1839
- Germans > Missouri > History > 19th century
- Saxons > Missouri > History > 19th century
- Germans
- Lutherans
- Saxons
- Lutherans > Missouri
- Germans > Missouri
- Missouri
- United States, Missouri, St. Louis (Independent City) > Church history
- United States, Missouri, Perry > Church history
- United States, Missouri > Emigration and immigration
- Germany, Sachsen > Church history
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- An expansion and revision of "the study ... originally prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Washington University in Saint Louis."
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 584-594.
- Contents
- European background -- Rise of Stephanism in Saxony, 1810-1837 -- Transformation of Stephanism into separatism -- Development of the emigration idea in Stephanite separatism -- Planning an American Zion, 1837-1838 -- Organization of the Auswanderungs-Gesellschaft -- Parting and departing -- The voyage from Bremerhaven to St. Louis, 1838-39 -- The Saxons and their new home -- The forerunners of the Forty-Eighters in the West -- Establishing the Episcopacy -- First contact with religious conditions in the West -- Problems of communal living in St. Louis -- Founding the Perry County Colony -- Discrediting Stephan's leadership -- Stephan's expulsion from the Gesellschaft -- Retrenchment and reappraisal -- Disorganization and reorganization, 1839-1841 -- Zion re-defined.
- ISBN
- 9780570045397
- 0570045398
- LCCN
- 53009271
- OCLC
- ocm01107222
- 1107222
- SCSB-191120
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library