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Henry Immanuel Schmidt

SCHMIDT, Henry Immanuel, clergyman, born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, 21 December, 1806. He received his preparatory and theological training in the Moravian academy at his native place, and in 1826 became a candidate for the ministry, but in 1829 :severed his connection with the Moravian church, and was licensed as a Lutheran clergyman. He was pastor of a congregation in Bergen county, New Jersey, in 1831-'3, assistant professor in Hartwick seminary, New York, in 1833-'6, pastor in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1836-'8, professor of German and French in Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1838-'9, and of German in the theological seminary there in 1839-'43, pastor at Palatine, New Jersey, in 1843-'5, principal of Hartwick seminary, New York, in 1845-'8, and professor of the German language and literature in Columbia in 1848-'80. On 1 November, 1880, he was compelled by failing health to resign the last-named post, and was retired as professor emeritus. In 1850 Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, conferred on him the degree of D.'D. He has been a frequent contributor to the "Evangelical Review" (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) and to other periodicals, and has published "History of Education," including part i., " History of Education, Ancient and Modern," and part ii., "Plan of Culture and Instruction based on Christian Principles" (1842) ; "Inaugural Address," delivered in the chapel of Columbia college (New York, 1848);" Scriptural Character of the Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord's Supper" (1852) ; and "Course of Ancient Geography" (1860).

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