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By 1750 the number of Germans in Pennsylvania was estimated at 60,000, of whom about two-thirds were Lutherans by birth. Though imbued with apocalyptical and mystical ideas, H. B. Koester, who arrived in 1694 with forty families, is said to have conducted the first German Lutheran services in Germantown.
On the work of Schiller as translator and adapter consult A. Koester, Schiller als Dramaturg, Berlin, 1891. An up-to-date French treatise on the early plays is that of Kontz, Les drames de la jeunesse de Schiller, Paris, 1899. Poems. Viehoff, Schillers Gedichte erlaeutert, und auf ihre Veranlassungen, Quellen und Vorbilder zurueckgefuehrt, 7th edition, Stuttgart, 1895.
Ernest Bassermann, echoed the Von Tirpitz cry, in an address to his constituents at Saarbrücken. The most ruthless employment of all weapons, he urged, was imperative. Besides Von Tirpitz, High Admiral Koester, Count Zeppelin, and Prince von Bülow shared this view.
Before long he united with the Episcopalians and founded Christ Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, but returned to Germany in 1700. Daniel Falckner, who had emigrated with Koester, opposed the Quakers in Germantown. In his struggle against the mismanagement of Pastorius, Falckner, in 1708, fell a prey to intrigues.
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