Augustus spangenberg biography
Spangenberg was....
August Gottlieb Spangenberg (15 July – 18 September ) was a German theologian, minister, and bishop of the Moravian Church.
August Gottlieb Spangenberg, 1704-1792
Julian's Account:
August Gottlieb Spangenberg, son of Georg Spangenberg, Lutheran pastor at Klettenberg, near Nordhausen, was born at Klettenberg, July 15th.
1704. He entered the university of Jena in 1722, as a student of law, but soon abandoned law for the study of theology. He lived in the house of Professor Buddeus, graduated M.A. in 1726, and for some time lectured there. In Sept.
1732, he went to Halle as adjunct of the Theological faculty and superintendent of the Orphanage Schools. Here he associated himself with the Separatists, and by an edict from Berlin was deprived of his offices and, on April 8th.
1733 was expelled from Halle.
Biography.He at once proceeded to Herrnhut, and was received into the Moravian Community, with which he had become acquainted as early as 1727. In 1735 he accompanied the Moravian colony which settled in Georgia and served also in Pennsylvania and in the island of St.Thomas.
He returned to Germany in 1739 and was