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Adolph was born on October 29, 1839 at Esslingen, Wurttemberg, Germany, the eldest of the seven children of Ernst Philipp Heinrich and Rosine Elisabeth (Boley) Spaeth, and was christened Philipp Friedrich Adolf Theodor. His father, a skilful and beloved physician, a liberal in politics, died in 1856; his mother died in 1902 at her son's home in Philadelphia.
He was educated at the Lateinschule of his native town, the Klosterschule of Blaubeuren, and the University of Tubingen.
Having been ordained October 10, 1861, at Waiblingen, Spaeth served for about a year as vicar at Bittenfeld and then, partly for the sake of his health, spent the winter of 1862-63 as a private tutor in northern Italy. The next year, one of the happiest and most significant of his life, was passed in Scotland, where he was a tutor in the family of the Duke of Argyll.
The Marquis of Lorne, governor-general of Canada, 1878-83, was one of his pupils. Through a cousin who was a member of the church council, Spaeth received a tentative call as assistant to William Julius Mann at St. Michael's and Zion's in Philadelphia. Thinking that the experience of a few years in America would be good for him, he accepted.
On October 16, 1864, he was formally installed as Mann's colleague. For the rest of his life Philadelphia was his home and the center of his work and influence.
In 1867 Spaeth accepted a call to the newly organized St. Johannis Church, with which he remained, with an assistant after 1893, until his death.
He visited Europe ten times and traveled much in the United States; few of the leaders of his denomination were so widely known or exerted so much personal influence. He died at his home at Mount Airy, Philadelphia, in his seventy-first year.
Adolph Spaeth was president of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, and of the General Conference of Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouses in America. Especially notable was his work in liturgics and hymnology. The bibliography of his published writings occupies thirteen pages of his biography; his books were Saatkrner (1893), a collection of sermon outlines and others.
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Both his parents were deeply religious; and Spaeth also was Evangelical Lutheran.
He had the magnetic personality, the powerful, flexible voice, the kinship with the audience and sense of its needs, of a great public speaker, and as an orator he was most widely known. In his command of English he was often compared to Carl Schurz, for whom he had a warm admiration; and the clarity, simplicity, and music of his German diction were flawless.
While in Scotland Spaeth was betrothed to Maria Dorothea Duncan, daughter of the Scotch theologian, John Duncan, who at first was reluctant to give her to a man who did not subscribe to the Westminster Confession.
On May 8, 1865, he married his betrothed, who bore him five sons and a daughter and died December 21, 1878. His second wife, whom he married October 12, 1880, and by whom he had four sons and a daughter, was Harriett Reynolds Krauth, daughter of Charles Porterfield Krauth; she survived him and wrote his biography.
