Lutheran Theological Seminary — St. Augustine's LibraryZion on the Mississippi : the settlement of the Saxon Lutherans in Missouri 1839-1841 / by Walter O. Forster.
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TextPublisher: Saint Louis, MI. : Concordia Publishing House , 1953Description: 606 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 284.1322 Forrester
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An expansion and revision of "the study ... originally prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Washington University in Saint Louis."
An expansion and revision of "the study...originally prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Washington University in Saint Louis."
Bibliography: pages 584-594.
European background -- Rise of Stephanism in Saxony, 1810-1837 -- Transformation of Stephanism into separatism -- Development of the emigration idea in Stephanite separatism -- Planning an American Zion, 1837-1838 -- Organization of the Auswanderungs-Gesellschaft -- Parting and departing -- The voyage from Bremerhaven to St. Louis, 1838-39 -- The Saxons and their new home -- The forerunners of the Forty-Eighters in the West -- Establishing the Episcopacy -- First contact with religious conditions in the West -- Problems of communal living in St. Louis -- Founding the Perry County Colony -- Discrediting Stephan's leadership -- Stephan's expulsion from the Gesellschaft -- Retrenchment and reappraisal -- Disorganization and reorganization, 1839-1841 -- Zion re-defined.
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