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Christopher Sower

American printer
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Also known as: Christopher Sauer, Christopher Saur
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Sower also spelled:
Saur, orSauer
Born:
1693, Ladenburg Palatinate of the Rhine [Germany]
Died:
Sept. 25, 1758, Germantown, Pa. [U.S.] (aged 65)
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Christopher Sower (born 1693, Ladenburg Palatinate of the Rhine [Germany]—died Sept. 25, 1758, Germantown, Pa. [U.S.]) was a German-born American printer and Pietist leader of the Pennsylvania Germans. Sower migrated with his wife and son Christopher to Germantown, Pa., in 1724. He was an artisan skilled in many crafts, was profoundly religious, and found his true career in 1738 as the first successful printer to the numerous Germans in colonial America. The output from his large and prolific press included a newspaper, Der Hoch-Deutsch Pensylvanische Geschicht-Schreiber, retitled Pensylvanische Berichte in 1748; an almanac, Der Hoch-Deutsch Americanische Calender; and more than ...(100 of 190 words)

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