Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (born 1711)

Henry Muhlenberg

German-born clergyman and missionary (1711–1787)

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, was a German-born Lutheran clergyman and missionary. Born in Einbeck, Muhlenberg immigrated to the Province of Pennsylvania in response to demands from Lutherans for missionary work in the colony. Muhlenberg was integral to the founding of the first…