Henrich Miller

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Henrich Miller or Johann Heinrich Miller (baptized March 12, 1702 in Rhoden ; † March 31, 1782 in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) ) was a German printer , publisher and translator in North America .

Life and meaning

Henrich Miller was born in 1702 in Hessen-Waldeck as the son of a Swiss journeyman bricklayer and a local woman and grew up with a Reformed denomination. In 1715 the family moved to Altstätten (probably in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley, or Altstetten near Zurich), and Henrich started an apprenticeship as a printer with Johann Ludwig Brandmüller in Basel . After completing his apprenticeship in 1721, Miller lived and worked as a book printer journeyman in Zurich, Leipzig, Altona, London, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Geneva, Hamburg and Paris. After his first religious awakening experience in 1716, he repeatedly met the founder of the Moravian family , Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf , in the 1730s and early 1740s , and emigrated to America with Zinzendorf in 1741. There he first worked as a printer's journeyman with Benjamin Franklin . His marriage to Johanna Dorothea Blauner in 1743 was arranged by Zinzendorf. The interests of the couple were directed towards different goals: While his wife strived for a secluded life in the Moravian community, Miller traveled many times as a printer for years. Miller initially served as a printer for the Herrnhuter in Marienborn , but then traveled again alone through England, Scotland and Ireland from 1747 to 1750. In 1751 he emigrated again to America and founded a bilingual newspaper in collaboration with Franklin; later (1762) followed a German-language magazine, the "Weekly Philadelphische Staatsbote". Miller also printed almanacs , legal literature for the German-speaking rural dwellers in Pennsylvania, and published the American Declaration of Independence in German in 1776 (before an English-language medium did) . After the death of his wife in 1779 in the Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Miller gave up his newspaper and in turn moved to Bethlehem, where he died in 1780.

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SURNAME Miller, Henrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer, publisher and translator in North America
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 12, 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Rhodes
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1782
Place of death Bethlehem, Pennsylvania