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George Henry Loskiel was born on November 7, 1740 at Angermuende, Courland, Russia (now part of Latvia), the son of John Christian Loskiel, a Lutheran preacher.
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George Henry Loskiel was born on November 7, 1740 at Angermuende, Courland, Russia (now part of Latvia), the son of John Christian Loskiel, a Lutheran preacher.
Loskiel studied theology at Halle.
On December 26, 1759 Loskiel joined the Moravian Church. He taught and filled various pastoral charges. In 1782 he was appointed superintendent of the mission in Livonia and agent for the Church in Russia. He occupied himself also for ten years, 1791-1801, with administrative and financial matters in connection with mission affairs. He was consecrated bishop on March 14, 1802, and sailed almost immediately for the United States to take charge of the work in North America in place of John G. Cunow.
He reached the Moravian headquarters, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at a critical time in the history of the Moravian Church on the continent. The original establishments had been founded in 1742 on land purchased by funds advanced from the estate of Count Zinzendorf. The business depression of 1750, following the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, had thrown Zinzendorf's affairs into bankruptcy and receivers had been appointed. At that time investments in the New World were looked upon with little favor, for France and England were on the brink of another war. As a consequence, in 1750 the entire establishment of the Moravian Church in the English colonies had been ordered to shift for itself in the belief that the investment was lost. This attitude on the part of the European authorities at Herrnhut continued until after the Revolution when, affairs in Europe having been rehabilitated, the receivers were discharged and the estate became a sustaining fund for the worldwide mission operations of the Church. By that time circumstances had altered the fortunes and possibilities of the Bethlehem group. The property had advanced in value, and the attention of the Herrnhut authorities was now riveted upon reestablishing a connection that had been broken for a generation. It was too late, however, for such a backward movement, and Cunow, whom Loskiel replaced, had found himself in a generation that knew not the old times. On all sides he had been met with refusal when he proposed a return to the old paternalism and European control. As a consequence he gave up his task, and the suave and diplomatic Loskiel took his place.
For ten years this shrewd and clever scholar labored to bring about a compromise whereby the European and American interests might be separated. There was, on the part of the Bethlehem group, no denial of either the debt or the obligation to pay interest. Upon the basis of this acknowledgment, Loskiel proceeded to effect the desired result. From Pennsylvania to North Carolina, he jogged from station to station; and it is solely to his credit that at the conference of 1810 a scheme of adjustment was adopted, and that from it there emerged a successful plan of separation. There is no doubt that the anxieties incident to his strenuous efforts shortened his life. Although he was relieved of his duties in May 1811, the state of his health and the outbreak of war with England prevented his return to Europe, and he died at Bethlehem in 1814.
Loskiel contributed to the creation of the American national spirit and he was the first of the Moravian bishops to visualize and strive for a new spirit of nationalization and to bring about, in those early days, a process of Americanization. George Henry was also a successful writer. His most important work was Geschichte der Mission der Evangelischen Brueder unter den Indianern in Nordamerika (1789), translated into English as History of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America (London, 1794).
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Loskiel was married to Maria Magdalena Barlach of Volmer, Livonia, on June 27, 1771.
