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ZION HISTORY : THE VIRTUAL TOUR |
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1. CHARLES FREDERICK WIESENTHAL
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Dr. Charles Frederick Wiesenthal is an important figure in the history of the early Zion Church and Maryland. He came to Baltimore in 1755, as a practicing physician. While the majority of the members of the Lutheran Church in Baltimore were humble people of limited education who engaged in crafts of many kinds, Dr. Wiesenthal was educated in Germany and did not limit his activities to his professional work. He enthusiastically dedicated himself to the the church. He soon rose to a position of leadership and in 1769 he was elected a a permanent elder of the church. |
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Dr. Wiesenthal was instrumental in the purchase of the
original lot upon which the first Zion church was built.
He insisted that church policies be documented and included in the church Constitution. It is believed but not proven, that Dr. Wiesenthal was the original (deliberately unidentified) archivist that documented the struggles and accomplishments of the early church. It could fairly be said, that without Wiesenthal, not only might we not remember Zion Church, but it might not have existed at all. His social, political and medical contributions to the city of Baltimore are considerable and partially documented by MD HISTORY ONLINE at http://mdhistoryonline.net/mdmedicine/cfm/dsp_detail.cfm?id=231 |
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Kirchen Archiv The original parish register. |
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Festschrift (Documenting Zion's first 150 years In German)
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ZION IN BALTIMORE (In German) |
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ZION IN BALTIMORE (The first major history of Zion published in English)
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