Background
Lebrecht Frederick Herman was born on October 2, 1761, at Giisten in the principality of Anhalt-Cothen, Germany, the son of Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Herrmann, an organist and school teacher, by his wife, Dorothea Wartman.
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Lebrecht Frederick Herman was born on October 2, 1761, at Giisten in the principality of Anhalt-Cothen, Germany, the son of Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Herrmann, an organist and school teacher, by his wife, Dorothea Wartman.
Lebrecht was an inmate for six years of the Halle Orphanage, then matriculated on May 10, 1781, at the University of Halle.
Lebrecht Herman became a teacher and vicar in Bremen, and was ordained at The Hague in February 1786 for the Coetus of Pennsylvania. He was pastor at Easton, Plainfield, Dryland, and Greenwich, Pennsylvania, 1786-1790, and at Germantown and Frankford, succeeding J. A. C. Helffenstein, 1790-1800. Although he used English as much as possible in conversation, he found it so burdensome to preach in that language on alternate Sundays that he resigned in 1800 and accepted the Falkner Swamp, Pottstown, and Vincent charge, where he remained for the rest of his long life.
Like the other ministers of his generation Herman preached at a number of places as opportunity offered and was instrumental in organizing several congregations. As a theological preceptor he wielded a far-reaching influence over his denomination, his house at Pottstown becoming famous as the “Swamp College. ” He gave his pupils a systematic three-years course of instruction in the classical languages, exegesis and dogmatics, and made them speak Latin at the table. By maintaining a respectable educational standard during the long, critical period from the founding of the Synod of the United States to the growth of an efficient seminary under its control, Herman performed a useful service with his “Swamp College, ” but trouble eventually arose.
In 1820, in order to kill competition with its projected seminary at Frederick, Mdaryland, the Synod passed a resolution forbidding its ministers to direct the theological studies of candidates. The next year Herman’s gifted by wayward son Frederick was deposed from the ministry and his father notified of the action a manner definitely though perhaps unintentionally offensive. Insult having thus been added to injury, Herman and his friends left the Synod and organized in 1822 a new one at Maxatawny. He survived all his friends and contemporaries and, though blind and greatly distressed by the death of his wife, remained in good health and spirits until the end. He died at Pottstown in his eighty-seventh year.
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Lebrecht Herman was a member of the German Reformed Church.
In 1787 Herman married Maria Johanna Feidt.