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Edmund Alexander was born on March 20, 1825 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Lewis David von Schweinitz, and Louisa Amelia (Ledoux) de Schweinitz. He was reared in a vibrating religious atmosphere.
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Edmund Alexander was born on March 20, 1825 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Lewis David von Schweinitz, and Louisa Amelia (Ledoux) de Schweinitz. He was reared in a vibrating religious atmosphere.
Reared in a vibrating religious atmosphere, all of his education was directed to the end of preparing him for the Moravian ministry.
Schweinitz was enrolled in the parochial school for three years, studied at the preparatory school at Nazareth Hall, Nazareth, Pennsylvania, for five years, and then entered the theological seminary at Bethlehem.
At the age of nineteen he sailed for Europe, visited a number of Moravian centers, and matriculated at the University of Berlin, where he sat under August Neander and other eminent scholars.
In 1846 he returned to America and accepted a teaching post at Nazareth Hall, offering also, during this four-year period, instruction in the theological seminary.
In 1846 Schweinitz returned to America and accepted a teaching post at Nazareth Hall, offering also, during this four-year period, instruction in the theological seminary. After a brief pastorate at Dover, Ohio, he returned to Europe.
Once more in America he was placed in charge of the Moravian Church at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and later was called to Philadelphia to preside over the First Church in that city. In 1855 he added to his duties the professorship of theology in the seminary, the theological students, few in number, taking up their residence in his Philadelphia parsonage.
He also became the editor of the Moravian, a weekly church paper, which appeared first on January 1, 1856. Up to this period the entire Unitas Fratrum or Moravian Church membership had been under the full control of the General Synod, meeting from time to time at Herrnhut, Saxony.
Elected as a delegate from the United States to the Synod in 1851, de Schweinitz exerted himself successfully in bringing about certain fundamental alterations in the principles of church government. As a result, the Synod granted local autonomy to the American province.
During the period of the Civil War de Schweinitz was in charge of the Lititz Church in Pennsylvania, and in 1864 was transferred to Bethlehem, where he remained for sixteen years. In 1867, resigning the editorship of the Moravian, he accepted the presidency of the theological seminary - which, after having been shifted from Bethlehem to Nazareth, and from Nazareth to Philadelphia, now was permanently established at Bethlehem - and succeeded in enlisting the financial support of the local churches in its behalf.
His elevation to the Episcopate followed three years later, and in 1879 he became president of the General Synod. As a result of this accumulation of executive duties, he was compelled to resign his pastorate of the Bethlehem Church, and in 1885 he also gave up the presidency of the theological seminary to concentrate his attention on the work of the Moravian missionary society.
In 1859 he had published The Moravian Manual; in 1861, a work entitled Systemic Benevolence; in 1865, The Moravian Episcopate; and in 1885, The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum.
His unceasing labors undermined his health, but he continued his activities as a bishop and author up to the time of his death in 1887. He left behind him his unfinished volume on the history of the renewed Unitas Fratrum.
Edmund Alexander de Schweinitz was elected to the highest office within the Moravian Church and became president of the General Synod. He founded the Moravian, the weekly journal of his Church for 10 years was its editor. He was the author of the famous works: The Moravian Manual (1859), The Moravian Episcopate (1865), The Life and Times of David Zeisberger (1870), Some of the Fathers of the Moravian Church (1881) and others.
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At Herrnhut, Saxony, Schweinitz was married in 1850 to Lydia J. de Tschirschky, of a noble Silesian family. His first wife died in 1866, leaving two sons and two daughters. He was married a second time in 1868 to Isabel Allison Boggs and had one child.
