Johann Philipp Boehm

Johann Philipp Böhm (* 1683 in Hochstadt (Maintal) ; † April 29, 1749 in Hellertown ) was a German Reformed pastor .

Life

Johann Philipp Böhm was baptized on November 25, 1683 in Hochstadt; he was the son of pastor Philipp Ludwig Böhm (1646–1723) and Maria Böhm (1651–1693). Initially, Böhm worked as a teacher in Worms and Lambsheim , but in 1720 emigrated to Pennsylvania , where he settled in Montgomery County . In 1725 he worked as a pastor in smaller settlements without being ordained . He made up for this on November 23, 1729 in New York and from then on worked in Germantown and Philadelphia, among others . The Swiss Michael Schlatter was also called to Pennsylvania from the Netherlands in 1746 to become a pastor there. Schlatter had been commissioned to create an ecclesiastical organization for the German Reformed Church in Pennsylvania. In the following year Böhm and Schlatter founded the Coetus Reformed Preacher in Pennsylvania, whose president Böhm was appointed in 1748. Therefore, he is considered the founder of the German Reformed Church in America. He died on April 29, 1749. He had been married twice, first to Anna Maria Stehler and a second time to Anna Maria Scherer.

plant

• Faithful warning letter to the High German Evangelical Reformed and all their members in Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania 1742)

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Boehm, Johann Philipp. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 661.
• Fritz Braun :  Böhm, Johann Philipp. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 383 ( digitized version ).