[SAMMELBAND OF TWENTY-TWO TRACTS RELATING TO THE SALZBURGER EMIGRANTS JUST AFTER THEIR EXPULSION BY THE PRINCE-ARCHBISHOP OF SALZBURG]

[Salzburger Emigrants]: [Georgia]

Verlag: [Various locations, see below, 1732

Twenty-two tracts, pagination provided below. Folio. 19th-century three-quarter burgundy morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, t.e.g. Some wear and rubbing to boards, spine scuffed. A few leaves rumpled, occasional dustsoiling and tanning, wear to edges of leaves, occasional light tidelines. A few pencil and ink annotations, later descriptive manuscripts notes laid in for each tract. Very good overall. A substantial collection of pamphlets relating to the persecution and exile of Protestants (Lutherans) in the Prince- Archbishopric of Salzburg in the early 18th century. It was this religious persecution that led many of these Protestant exiles (later known as the Salzburgers) to emigrate to the colony of Georgia in British North America in the 1730s and beyond. The tracts in this volume fill out the history and circumstances of that emigration movement. Religious tensions in the Holy Roman Empire stemming from the Reformation were still going strong in the 18th century. While the Peace of Augsburg (1555) had secured the right of each prince to determine the religion of their own state (cuius regio, eius religio), the Peace of Westphalia (1648) took this further: subjects were no longer forced to follow the conversion of their ruler, and those living in principalities where their denomination was not the established church were guaranteed the right to practice their faith in private as well as in public. The Counter Reformation was particularly strong in Salzburg, and previous prince-archbishops had attempted similar strategies to convert the population back to Catholicism. However, Prince-Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian was the first to attempt to expel all Protestants in Salzburg, following years of abuse and unlawful prosecution. The Prince-Archbishop issued the expulsion edict on October 31, 1731, the 214th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, when Martin Luther nailed his "Ninety-Five Theses" to the church door in Wittenberg. The edict ordered the some 20,000 Protestants to leave Salzburg within eight days, leaving behind all children under the age of twelve; single men and women without land holdings were rounded up in November by Austrian troops and escorted out of Salzburg. The edict clearly defied the terms of the Peace of Westphalia; Firmian submitted in part to initial pressure from the Protestant electors, and modified the order to allow families to stay until April 23, 1732 and to retain their property for three years. The expulsion triggered protests from the Protestant states throughout the Holy Roman Empire and other Protestant nations in Europe. In the months leading up to the expulsion, the Salzburg Protestants dispatched delegations to seek aid and support. In August 1731, a delegation traveled to Regensburg to seek help from the Corpus Evangelicorum (the Protestant body in the Imperial Diet), and another delegation travelled to Berlin in November, to ask for help from the stridently Protestant King of Prussia. Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I provided the most enthusiastic response and ultimately welcomed over 12,000 exiles to Prussia, chiefly in what is now Lithuania. Others settled in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Protestant Europe, and a significant group traveled to the colony of Georgia in British North America. Lutheran pastor Samuel Urlsperger of Augsburg worked with the English Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge to fund a group of exiles to travel to Georgia, where founder and governor James Oglethorpe offered land near the Savannah River, along with financial support from the Georgia Trustees. Led by pastors Johann Martin Boltzius and Israel Gronau, the immigrants arrived in 1734. After a rocky start, the settlement, New Ebenezer ultimately flourished, drawing other immigrants and growing to over 1200 members by 1741. Urlsperger edited a collection of Boltzius and Gronau's correspondence and travel diaries, as well as reports from the Roy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM57615

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Titel: [SAMMELBAND OF TWENTY-TWO TRACTS RELATING TO...
Verlag: [Various locations, see below
Erscheinungsdatum: 1732