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ANDERS, John Daniel, Moravian bishop, born in Germany, 9 August 1771; died in Herrnhut, Saxony, 6 November 1847. He was graduated at the Moravian College and the theological seminary at Herrnhut, became a professor in the latter, and subsequently took charge of the Moravian Church in Berlin. There his learning and eloquence attracted no little attention among the professors of the University and others. The celebrated Dr. Neander was his intimate friend. In 1827 Anders was appointed to preside over the northern district of the American Moravian Church, and accordingly received consecration as a bishop on 16 September of that year, at Herrnhut. He filled this office until 1836, when he attended a general synod of the Moravian Church convened in Germany, and that body elected him to the supreme executive board of the Unitas Fratrum. Fox' this reason he did not return to the United States.
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