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SHULTZ, Theodore, missionary, born in Gerdauen, Prussia, 17 December, 1770; died in Salem, North Carolina, 4 August, 1850. He entered the foreign mission field of the Moravian church in 1799, and was sent to Surinam, South America, where he served seven years. He was then transferred to the United States, and until 1821 labored in the ministry, after which he was appointed administrator of the estates of the southern diocese, retiring in 1844. He revised and improved a "Dictionary," and translated a "Harmony of the Gospels" into the Arrawak language.--His son, Henry Augustus, Moravian bishop, born in Surinam, South America, 7 February, 1806; died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 21 October, 1885, was a graduate of the Moravian theological seminary, and filled various pastoral offices. In 1848 he was elected a delegate to the general synod that convened at Herrnhut, Saxony, and on 31 July, 1864, he was consecrated to the episcopacy at Bethlehem. He promoted, with great zeal, the cause of home missions.
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