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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 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 ...
(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 Moravian Church in North America is part of the worldwide Moravian Church Unity. It dates from the arrival of the first Moravian missionaries to the United States in 1735, from their Herrnhut settlement in present-day Saxony, Germany. They came to minister to the scattered German immigrants, to the Native Americans and to enslaved Africans.
Moravian University alumni. Articles and categories related to notable alumni of Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
An illustrated postcard of Lehigh University's campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1907 Alumni Memorial Building in November 2019. Located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the historically industrial Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, which is located between two of the nation's largest cities, 70-mile (110 km) from Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city, and 85-mile (137 km ...
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.