Pastor Kavel |
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| Title : | Pastor Kavel |
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| Date of creation : | ca. 1840 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
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| Description : |
August Kavel was born in Berlin in 1798 and became Lutheran pastor of Zullichau in Brandenberg. From 1817 the Kaiser of Prussia attempted to unify the Lutherans and Calvinists by creating a state church. Kavel disagreed strongly with these moves. In 1835 he travelled to Hamburg in search of means for himself and almost 200 other 'Old Lutherans' to immigrate to America in search of freedom of religious worship. However, here he heard of the English Baptist George Fife Angas and his connections with the experimental colony of South Australia. Eventually Angas provided the financial backing for the group to settle in South Australia and establish a community near Adelaide at Klemzig. Others followed and eventually the German Lutherans settled in the Barossa Valley. Pastor Kavel died in 1860. |
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| Related names : | Angas, George Fife, 1789-1879 Kavel, A. (August), 1798-1860 |
| Coverage year : | 1840 |
| Place : | Klemzig (S. Aust.) |
| Region : | Adelaide metropolitan area |
| Further reading : | 'August Kavel (1798-1860) Lutheran migrant leader', S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Ed. John Healey. Adelaide: Historical Society of South Australia, 2001 Leske, Everard. For faith and freedom: the story of Lutherans and Lutheranism in Australia 1838-1996, Adelaide: Openbook, 1996 Lutheran Church of Australia. Papers of Pastor ALC Kavel, 1833-1840, SRG 3/3 Van Abbe, D. 'Kavel, August Ludwig Christian (1798-1860)', Volume 2, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne: Melbourne Univeristy Press, 1967, pp. 33-34 Zweck, Lois. 'August Ludwig Christian Kavel 3.9.1798-12.3.1860'Journal of Friends of Lutheran Archives, no. 8 (October 1998), pp. 5-15 |
| Internet links : | Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Search for August Ludwig Christian Kavel |
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