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About Bishop Emil Adolphus de Schweinitz
Bishop Emil Adolphus de Schweinitz
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 17446936
The first of the name to come to America was Hans Christian Alexander von Schweinitz. He came to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1770, charged with the administration of the affairs of the Moravian Church in this country. On April 27, 1779, he was married to Dorothea von Wattewille, a granddaughter of Count Zinzendorf.
Their oldest son was Lewis David von Schweinitz, born at Bethlehem, February 13, 1780. This son of the founder of the American branch was a man of great erudition. He was a devout churchman and prominent in ecclesiastical work, but in the midst of his labors in behalf of the church he found much time to devote to abstruse scientific research, and became one of the most distinguished American botanists of his time. His attention was devoted to cryptogamic botany, and he added the enormous number of nearly 1400 new species to the botanical science of his period.
His scientific treatises were written in Latin, and his translations into that tongue included his own name, which appeared as Ludovicus de Schweinitz. His descendants have for the most part signed themselves de Schweinitz instead of von Schweinitz, evidently preferring their name in its Latinized form. It is probable that the love of science of our dear dead friend was a heritage from this illustrious ancestor.
On May 24, 1812, he married Amalie le Doux, of Huguenot descent, and their second son was Emil Adolphus de Schweinitz, who served the Moravian Church in various capacities, the last of which was that of bishop.
Emil Adolphus de Schweinitz married Sophia Hermann, daughter of Bishop J. G. Hermann, in 1842, and their sixth child and only son was Emil Alexander de Schweinitz.
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Bishop Emil Adolphus de Schweinitz's Timeline
| 1816 |
October 26, 1816
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Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
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| 1847 |
May 24, 1847
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Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
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| 1849 |
August 12, 1849
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Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
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| 1851 |
1851
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Salem, North Carolina, United States
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| 1853 |
December 23, 1853
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Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
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| 1856 |
September 2, 1856
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Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
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| 1860 |
October 28, 1860
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Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
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| 1864 |
January 18, 1864
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Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
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| 1879 |
November 3, 1879
Age 63
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Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
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