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Münder, Hieronymus Ludwig

Profession
Clergy
Biography

The Rev. Hieronymus Ludwig Münder, son of Karl Münder & Elisabeth Westerlin, was born 4 June 1822 [some sources record 4 July 1823] in Riga, Latvia. He died 5 July 1876 in the colony of Bettinger.  He was married to Aurelia Luise Seeberg, daughter of Johann Friedrich Seeberg & Luise Dorothea Eleonore Reimer. She was born 25 July 1834 in Wahnen, Kurland, and died in 1900.

He studied theology at the University of Dorpat. He was ordained on 5 September 1854 in Moscow.

He served the parish in Astrakhan from 1854-1859, Peterhof from 1860-1862, and Bettinger from 1862-1876.

Source(s)

- Münder Hieronymus Ludwig (Wolgadeutsche.ru) [online]
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 161.

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Pastor Hieronymus Ludwig Münder.
Source: Wolgadeutsche.ru