Background
Schweinitz, Edmond Alexander De was born on March 20, 1825 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Lewis David and Louisa Amelia (Ledoux) van Schweinitz.
Schweinitz, Edmond Alexander De was born on March 20, 1825 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Lewis David and Louisa Amelia (Ledoux) van Schweinitz.
Attended theological seminary, Bethlehem, 1843. Graduated from the University Berlin (Germany) 1844. S.T.D. (honorary), Columbia, 1871.
Theology Moravian seminary, Philadelphia, 1855. 1st editor of Moravian, (weekly church paper) 1856-1866. Delegate from United States to Synod in Saxony, Germany, 1857.
In charge of church, Lititz, Pennsylvania, during Civil War. Transferred to Bethlehem, 1864-1880. President theological seminary at Bethlehem, 1867-1884.
Elevated to Episcopate, 1870. President General Synod, Saxony, 1879. Active in work of Moravian missionary society.
Author: The Moravian Manual, 1859. Some of the Fathers of the Moravian Church, 1881. The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum, 1885.
Married Lydia J. de Tschirschky, 1850. Married second, Isabel Allison Boggs, 1868.