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FormatBook Chapter
Author, AnalyticRoeber, Anthony Gregg
Title, AnalyticThe von Mosheim Society and the Preservation of German Education and Culture in the New Republic, 1789-1813
Author, MonographicGeitz, Henry//Heideking, Juergen//Herbst, Jurgen
Title, MonographicGerman Influences on Education in the United States to 1917
Place of PublicationWashington, D.C.; Cambridge; New York
PublisherGerman Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication1995
Location in Work157-176
AbstractJustus Heinrich Christian Helmuth arrived from Halle to assume pastoral responsibilities in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1769. . . . Between 1785 and 1818, Helmuth labored to erect a comprehensive system of German education ranging from parish elementary schooling to the von Mosheim Society, which he founded in 1789 as an adult literary society for the perpetuation of German language and culture.
Call NumberMKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995
MKI TermsGerman Americans -- Societies, etc./ Language, German/ Language maintenance/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ German Americans -- Pennsylvania/ Education/ German influence