- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Johann Martin Boltzius
- Date of Original:
- 1703/1756
- Subject:
- Salzburgers--Georgia
Religious refugees--Georgia
Lutherans--Georgia
Clergy--Georgia
Church vestments--Georgia
Wigs--Georgia
Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Collars--Georgia - People:
- Boltzius, Johann Martin, 1703-1765
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- paintings (visual works)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Lutheran minister Johann Martin Boltzius, along with religious refugees from Salzburger, founded the settlement of Ebenezer near Savannah in the early 1730s as a religious utopia. Boltzius hoped to create a successful economic system that was not dependent upon slavery.
This rendering of Lutheran minister Johann Martin Boltzius shows him wearing a white wig and an ecclesiastical robe with a white collar. Boltzius, along with religious refugees from Salzburger, founded the settlement of Ebenezer near Savannah, Georgia in the early 1730s as a religious utopia. Boltzius hoped to create a successful economic system that was not dependent upon slavery. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/effingham-county/m-8106/
- Rights Holder:
- Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries
- Original Collection:
- Georgia Photo File, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Neg. 888, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1593
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ebenezer
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/johann-martin-boltzius-1703-1765 - Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
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