Description: Beginning with the immigration of the "Georgia Salzburgers," religious exiles from Europe, The Early History of the Lutheran Church in Georgia tells a story of faith and struggle that is deeply embedded in the religious and cultural life of the American colonial South. Previously unpublished and untranslated, Hermann Winde's dissertation laid the foundation for a limited group of scholars and specialists who have continued to develop that story for over four decades. Now, both the detail that emerges through Winde's primary sources and the breadth of the connections he makes across colonial Georgia's geographical and cultural landscape will continue to appeal to scholars and general readers alike as they enter the world of Georgia's first Lutheran communities.
Brief description:
Hermann Winde was born in 1935 in Elmshorn near Hamburg. He completed his Doctor of Theology dissertation at the Martin-Luther-University at Halle in 1961. Following his ordination in 1963, he served several congregations in East Germany and, beginning in 1977, as assistant to the Bishop of the Protestant diocese of Görlitz. He has lectured in churches, seminaries, and universities in the United States. He retired in 2000 in Erfurt.