16 September 1796 A.D. William Augustus Muhlenberg Born—American Lutheran-Turned-Episcopal Clergyman. He was a great-grandson of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711–1787), "father of Lutheranism in America.”
16 September 1796 A.D. William Augustus Muhlenberg Born—American Lutheran-Turned-Episcopal Clergyman. He was a great-grandson of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711–1787), "father of Lutheranism in America.” William Augustus Muhlenberg (16 September 1796 – 8 April 1877) was a famous Episcopal clergyman who accomplished many different things in a long life of service to God and others. For example, Muhlenberg is considered not only the father of a unique kind of education in the United States (see "Church school" below); he was also an early exponent of the Social Gospel, founded St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, and should be seen as an early leader of the liturgical movement in Anglican Christianity. While Muhlenberg's model schools on Long Island had a significant impact on the history of American education, especially by way of the graduates who founded other schools all over the United States, Muhlenberg left his work in secondary education in 18...