Rev. John Christopher Kunze

Was the Pastor of the Christ Lutheran Church, New York : 1784 - 1807
and served in Philadelphia County

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Kunze, John Christopher
(Johan[n]; Kuntze; August 5, 1744–July 24, 1807). B. Artern, near Mansfeld, Saxony, Ger.; educ. Leipzig; to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1770; coadjutor to H. M. Mühlenberg*; ordained 1770; son-in-law of H. M. Mühlenberg; est. pretheol. school Philadelphia 1773, closed 1776 by Revolutionary War; succeeded Mühlenberg as chief pastor 1779; pastor NYC 1784; prof. Oriental languages Columbia Coll., NYC, 1784–87, 1792–99; official tr. of Congress 1785; prof. Hartwick Sem. 1797–1807. Works include Einige Gedichte und Lieder; Van den Absichten und dem bisherigen Fortgang der privilegirten Deutschen Gesellschaft zu Philadelphia in Pennsylvanien; Ein Wart für den Verstand und des Herz vom Rechten und Gebanten Lebenswege. See also United Lutheran Church in America, The, Synods of, 15.

There are many references to pastor Kuntze (sic) in Mühlenberg's Journals (see Project

~• note hius early admission to the American Philosophical Soc. (Jan 1780) > he was 36 years old