Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Schmieder, son of Pastor Georg Schmieder, was born in Daubitz in Saxony.
He began his study of theology at the seminary in Leipzig on 21 May 1785. He was ordained 8 July 1808 in Moscow and served as pastor of the congregation in Galka from 1808 to 1825.
Pastor Schmieder married in Moscow on 20 July 1807 to Friederike Wilhelmine Sophie Richter, daughter of the supervising hunter Friedrich Richter and adopted daughter of the merchant Christoph August Glöckner.
Friedrich August Theodor Schmieder, son of Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Schmieder, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Galka in Household No. 178.
Fedor [Friedrich} Schmieder and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Galka in Household No. 211.
Among the descendants of Pastor Schmieder is well-known musician and composer Gottfried Schmieder.
- 1834 Galka Census (Household No. 178).
- 1857 Galka Census (Household No. 211).
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 169.
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