Johann Christoph Schwedler
SCHWEDLER, Johann Christoph. b. Krobsdorf, Lower Silesia, 21 December 1672; d. Nieder-Wiesa, 12 January 1730. The son of a farmer, he studied theology in Leipzig. From 1698 until his death he was priest of the ‘border church’ of Nieder-Wiesa near Greiffenberg, a church built for the Protestant Silesians who had been persecuted by the Hapsburg politics of the Catholic Church in Saxony. There he founded an orphanage on the model of the one at Halle. Schwedler was won for the Pietist movement by August Hermann Francke (I)*: he was close to Henriette Katharina von Gersdorf and to Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf*, and was a popular revivalist preacher. Volumes of his sermons were widely published,...
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