The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . s,Inspirations, Illuminations, Inspeakings, Prophesies, Apparitions,Changings of Minds, Transfigurations, Translations of their Bodys,wonderfuU Fastings for 11, 14, 27, 37 days, Paradyslcal Repre-sentations by Voices, Melodies & Sensations to the very perceptibilityof the Spectators. Many of his letters and long hymns or poems, as well asa Diarium, have been preserved. The portrait, said to be the earliest wor
The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . s,Inspirations, Illuminations, Inspeakings, Prophesies, Apparitions,Changings of Minds, Transfigurations, Translations of their Bodys,wonderfuU Fastings for 11, 14, 27, 37 days, Paradyslcal Repre-sentations by Voices, Melodies & Sensations to the very perceptibilityof the Spectators. Many of his letters and long hymns or poems, as well asa Diarium, have been preserved. The portrait, said to be the earliest work in oil paintedin America, was found folded and prefixed to a manuscriptvolume of hymns, written in German and translated intoEnglish, by Dr. Christopher Witt, in 1705. The portraitis probably from life, and is evidently contemporary withthe book, which is owned by the Pennsylvania HistoricalSociety. Our reproduction is from Dr. Sachses photograph. John Kelpius, Pietist. The New World, June, 1894, page The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania, page 224. The Diarium of Magister Johannes Kelpius, w^ith annotations by Julius F. , Pa., 1917. 262. JOHANNES KELPIUS 1673-1708 (»63) THE NEW YORK \PUBLIC library! ASTO«, LEN^XTIL DEN FOUN»^TieNS Henrich Bernhard Kqster was born, in November,1662, in the town of Blumenberg, in Lippe, Westphalia,the son of Ludolph Koster, the burgomaster, and AnnaCatherine Blumen von Schwalenberg. His younger brotherbecame famous as superintendent of the Royal Library atParis. Henrich studied in his native town, then at Det-mold, Bremen, and at Frankfort on the Oder, specializingin philosophy and law. He soon developed marked abilityas a tutor, and served a baronial patron for several years,teaching and studying. At Berlin he joined the Pietistmovement, and was elected leader of a group of believersat Magdeburg on the Elbe. With knapsack and staff heled them into Holland, and his ability procured transpor-tation to Ame
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