Augustus Schultze

Background

Augustus was born on February 3, 1840 at Nowawes, Prussia, a suburb of Potsdam (now Germany), the son of J. C. Louis and D. Frederica (Haessler) Schultze.

Education

Schultze received his academic training at Niesky in Silesia and his theological training at Gnadenfeld, where he took his bachelor's degree in divinity in 1861.

Career

In 1862 Schultze taught Latin and Greek at the French Academy, Lausanne, Switzerland, and for eight years he occupied the chair of classics at Niesky, where on September 16, 1869, he was ordained deacon in the Moravian church.

In 1870 he was sent to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to fill the chair of classics in the Moravian College and Theological Seminary. In 1885 he became president of the institution, having meanwhile, January 20, 1882, been ordained presbyter, at Bethlehem, by Bishop Edmund de Schweinitz.

He served as president until July 1, 1918, and, as president emeritus, he continued his devotion to the classics as professor of Hebrew until his death. From 1881 to 1893 he was secretary and member of the governing board of the northern diocese of the Moravian Church in America.

In 1886 he published "A Brief History of the Widows' Society of Bethlehem"; the following year he prepared the annual textbook of devotional readings in the Danish language (1888); and in 1890 he brought out Die Missionsfelde der Erneuerten Bruderkirche.

Meanwhile he had published A Brief Grammar and Vocabulary of the Eskimo Language of North-Western Alaska (1889; 2nd ed. , 1894), the result of long study and comparison of material submitted by oral evidence, since the language had, up to that time, no written expression.

His next work was "The Old Moravian Cemetery of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1742-1897".

At the time of his sudden death in Bethlehem, from the effects of a fall, he was engaged in the revision of his Eskimo grammar, enlarged to include a translation of passages from the Bible into that tongue.

Achievements

• Augustus Schultze has been listed as a noteworthy theologian by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Books of the Bible: Briefly Analyzed for Use in Bible Instruction and for Bible Students in General

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Personality

Schultze was known for his carefulness and clarity of thinking.

Connections

Schultze was married twice. His first wife, Julia Reck of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, whom he married December 26, 1871, died in 1874 leaving one son. His second wife, Adelaide E. Peter of Gnadenhutten, Ohio, whom he married July 5, 1876, died February 3, 1918, leaving a son and three daughters.

Father:

J. C. Louis Schultze

Mother:

D. Frederica (Haessler) Schultze

Spouse:

Julia Reck

Spouse:

Adelaide E. Peter

References

• Who's Who in America Vol. X 1918-1919