Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Klingsohr, John Augustus

KLINGSOHR, John Augustus, clergyman, b. near Dresden, Saxony, 13 June, 1746; d. in Bethlehem, Pa., 5 Nov., 1798. He was graduated at the University of Leipsic, where he studied both theology and law. After serving the Moravian church in Germany in various capacities, and being ordained successively to the grades of deacon and presbyter, he accepted an appointment as pastor of the church at Bethlehem, Pa., where he arrived in 1783, and labored for fifteen years, until his death, with great acceptance and success. He was a learned theologian and distinguished preacher.