Background
Wunsch, William Frederic was born on May 11, 1882 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Henry and Elizabeth (Maul) Wunsch.
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William Frederic Wunsch
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Bachelor of Laws, University of Michigan, 1906, Bachelor of Arts, 1908. Graduate New Church Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1909.
Career
Ordained New Church (Swedenborgian) ministry, 1909. Pastor Bath, Maine, 1909-1912, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1912-1916. Instructor New Church Theological School, 1909-1910 and 1911-1914, professor theology, 1914-1930, professor Bible literature and langs., 1930-1935, also principal, 1921-1929.
Pastor Waltham, Massachusetts, 1919-1935. Summer preacher at Little Harbor Chapel, Portsmouth, N.H., since 1927. Pastor Church of the Neighbor, Brooklyn Heights, New York City, 1935-1943, Church of the Holy City, Washington, since 1943.
Chairman of the Board mgrs. New-Church Theological School, 1945-1950. Has been a lecturer in Theology, same school, since 1950.
Author: An Outline of New-Church Teaching. The World within the Bible, 1929. A Practical Philosophy of Life, 1937.
Editor New Church Review, 1917-1934, The New Christianity, 1935-1943, 47. Collaborator, The Gist of Swedenborg. Compiler; Swedenborg on Marriage, 1929.
Swedenborg on the Bible. Marriage, Ideals and Realization, 1929. Translator: “Charity” (Swedenborg), 1931.
Marital Love (Swedenborg), 1938. Editor: The Stairway of Life (Julian Kennedy Smyth, posthumous), 1939. Home: Washington. *.
Connections
Married Mary M. Gunn, September 1, 1909. Children: Gretchen, Henry, Barbara, Catherine (Mistress Chas.
