Background
Kunze was born in Artern, a town in the Kyffhäuserkreis district of Prussian Saxony.
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John Kunze
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Education
He received his classical training in the gymnasia at Rossleben and Merseburg, and then attended the University of Leipzig where he studied history, philosophy and theology.
Career
He worked as a teacher and an orphanage inspector before becoming ordained as a Lutheran minister. In 1770, Kunze emigrated to Colonial America to serve as second pastor at Saint Michael"s and Zion Lutheran churches in Philadelphia. In 1780 he stepped down from the Board to become Professor of German and Hebrew.
While teaching, he and fellow German Lutheran pastor, Justus Henry Christian Helmuth, tried unsuccessfully to establish a German College within the University.
In 1785, Kunze served as an official translator for the United States Congress. Kunze was fluent in five languages and had also studied medicine, astronomy and numismatics.
With the death of John Christopher Hartwick during 1796, Kunze became the founding director of Hartwick Seminary. As a steward of the estate of John Christopher Hartwick, Kunze worked to establish a Lutheran Seminary in America.
Kunze had been Hartwick"s personal choice as director of the seminary.
Prominent political and religious leaders Jeremiah Van Rensselaer and Frederick Muhlenberg convinced Doctor Kunze to direct the seminary and teach theology at his home in New York City. In 1816, the New York State Legislature would incorporated the new school—the first Lutheran seminary in America—as a classical academy and theological seminary, in the Town of Hartwick, New New York Hess, Stephen America"s Political Dynasties (Transaction Publishers 1997).
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Hymn and Prayer-Book: For the Use of Such Lutheran Churches as Use the English Language (Classic Reprint)
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Hymn and Prayer-Book: For the Use of Such Lutheran Churches as Use the English Language (Classic Reprint)
Membership
In 1784, Kunze was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society, accepted a position at Trinity and Christ Church in New York City, and also became Professor of Oriental languages at Columbia College.
