Hi i am looking for information on Claus Harms who came to america between
1820 and 1850. I have seen his name come up on a search but it is on CD and
really do not want to pay $50 for information or if there even is any helpful
information on the CD. Does anyone have this information on CD?
Thanks
Dave Eden
Dave, I found the following on the 1880 United States Census, Disk 25 entitled:
"Prairie States--Missouri." I copied the data of two HARMS' "households" into
Notepad and then again to this email. So it has lost a bit of the column
correctness, but I think you can make it out all the same.
Hope this is YOUR CLaus Harms, as someone told the census taker the gentleman
below was 85 years old and born in Hannover. Your local Family History library
(call up an LDS church for nearest location) should have the same info.
Hi Dave,
You are looking for Claus HARMS!
May be you find him in the history of lutheren church in SCHLESWIG
HOLSTEIN.
Claus HARMS, born *1778 and +1855
was a very famous preacher in Schleswig-Holstein.
In 1820 C.H. was a preacher in LUNDEN a smal village in the country
named DITMARSCHEN north of Hamburg near the town of MELDORF.
Later on he became the "teacher" of all preachers in this lutheran
country.
This man was a real fighter for fredom and justice and there was a very
importend sermon titeled: "Vom Kriege nach dem Kriege." and: "Wider die
einheimischen Landesfeinde." (I try to translate: "About war after war
is over" - "Sermon against the enemy in the country of our own."
Afterworts C.H. became the "father" of all lutheren churches in the
county and as I know, there where some good conections to the lutheren
people that emigratee form Schleswig-Holstein to USA. May be he traveld
to USA in his last years - I suppose.
In Schleswig-Holstein in a lot of towns you�ll find a
"Claus-Harms-Strasse"
In 1834 C.H. gets his "promotion" (means: Dr. Claus Harms) in Kiel
Ok, this is only a sugestion, that�s it.
Klaus Vahlbruch
Hi Dave,
I found some english discription:
<HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH*;
HARMONY SOCIETY.
See ComnsuNlsm, II., 6.
HARMS, CLAUS:
German Lutheran;
b. (May 25, 1778) ;at Fahrstedt, near Marne (50 m. n.w. of Hamburg),
South Ditmarsh (Sleswick-Holstein),
d. at Kiel (Feb. 1, 1855); at Kiel
He received merely the rudiments of an education in tile village school
and from the village pastor, and Student worked in his father's mill
till he was Life. nineteen. Then, coming into posses sion of a little
property by his father's death, he entered the gymnasium of Meldorf, and
by extraordinary industry finished the course in two years. In 1799 he
went to the University of Kiel to study theology. This university was
dominated at that time by ration alism, but Harms, studying the writings
of Kant and reading Schleiermacher, suddenly felt that all rationalism
and human science could not help him, that his salvation must be sought
elsewhere; the study of Holy Scripture brought about his complete
conversion. In 1802 he finished his theological studies and became
private tutor in Probsteierhagen in Holstein.
In 1806 the congregation of Lunden, in the district of North Ditmarsh,
chose him deacon. He devoted himself with great energy to Pastor and the
art of preaching, and extended his Preacher. care for his parishioners
to all their spiritual and secular affairs. His sermons became very
popular, even outside of his parish; and he was at times so fearless in
denunciations of existing shortcomings of the government that he was
called to account. In 1816 he was appointed archdeacon of St. Nicolai in
Kiel, where he was equally popular. Since, however, he became more and
more convinced that his time had declined from the faith of the
Reformation, and thus from the source of salvation he considered the
year 1817, the three hundredth anniversary of the Reformation, as an
opportune time to speak his ..." (I found no further text. KV)
Klaus Vahlbruch
Do you know the name of his wife, or the names of any children?
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