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Moravian University claims to be the sixth-oldest college in the United States and the second girls' school, just behind the Ursuline Academy of New Orleans which opened in 1727. It traces its roots to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in 1742, as the first boarding school for young women in the U.S.
Benigna Zinzendorf, also known as Henrietta Benigna Justine Zinzendorf von Watteville (1725–1789), was the founder of the first boarding school for girls in the British American colonies, which became Moravian University and Moravian Academy. She was a missionary among Native Americans and assisted her father, Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf, and ...
The Gnadenhutten massacre, also known as the Moravian massacre, was the killing of 96 pacifist Moravian Christian Indians (primarily Lenape and Mohican) by U.S. militiamen from Pennsylvania, under the command of David Williamson, on March 8, 1782, at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio Country, during the American Revolutionary War.
The movement that would develop into the Moravian Church was started by a Catholic priest named Jan Hus (in English John Hus) in the early 15th century. The Church was established as a reaction to practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Hus wanted to return the Church in Bohemia and Moravia to the practices of early Christianity: performing the ...
Palacký University Olomouc ( Czech: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci) is the oldest university in Moravia and the second-oldest in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1573 as a public university led by the Jesuit order in Olomouc, which was at that time the capital of Moravia and the seat of the episcopacy.
(absorbed by Washington College when the latter was founded) Province of Maryland: 1723 1782 Non-sectarian Bethlehem Female Seminary (Moravian University) Province of Pennsylvania: 1742 1863 Moravian Church: Newark Academy (University of Delaware) Delaware Colony: 1743 1833 Presbyterian, but officially non-sectarian after 1769 Augusta Academy
The American Moravian Church sponsors the Moravian University and Seminary. The largest concentration of Moravians today is in Tanzania . The motto of the Moravian Church is: "In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things, love".
Bethlehem Female Seminary. Coordinates: 40.630°N 75.380°W. The Bethlehem Female Seminary was established in 1742 in Germantown, Philadelphia and was the first Protestant boarding school for girls in what became the United States. [1] The Bethlehem Female Seminary later became known as the Moravian Female Seminary, and in 1863 the seminary was ...