August Ferdinand Carl Schwartz DD (1817–1870) was a Hebrew Christian clergyman and minister of the Free Church of Scotland serving in

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and

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Life

He was born on 20 January 1817 in Meseritz in

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

, now

Międzyrzec Podlaski Międzyrzec Podlaski ( la, Meserici, german: Meseritz) is a city in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, with the population of 17,162 inhabitants . The total area of the city is . Międzyrzec is located near the Krzna river, not f ...

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, the son of Isaac Levin Schwartz and Bertha Wollstein. He studied at the universities of

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and Halle. Carl Schwartz converted to Christianity while at University in Prussia. He appears to have moved to

in the 1840s and was representative of the London Jews Society in

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in 1842. While there he met Rev Robert Walter Stewart of the Leghorn mission. The Society abandoned their mission there in 1843 and by some mechanism he transferred to the mission linked to the newly created Free Church of Scotland (possibly the latter took over his existing mission building). In 1844 he took on the role of Free Church of Scotland missionary to the Jews in

, staying in this position until 1849. He then served a similar role for the Free Church of Scotland in

from 1849 to 1864.Ewing, William ''Annals of the Free Church'' From 1864 Schwartz was minister of Trinity Chapel, in Newnham Street (earlier John Street) off the Edgware Road in

. There he succeeded the previous minister, Ridley Herschell, himself also a Polish-born Jew who had been converted to evangelical Christianity. Schwartz in 1865 sent letters to many Christians of Jewish origin known to him, calling for a united Hebrew Christian congregation. In 1867 he became minister of Harrow Road Presbyterian Church, also continuing on his work of converting Jews, now in London. He died on 24 August 1870 in Kensington in London.

Family

Schwartz married twice; first, in 1843, Maria Dorothea Saphir of Budapest, the sister of

Adolph Saphir Aaron Adolph Saphir (26 September 1831 – 4 April 1891) was a Hungarian Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Jewish Presbyterian missionary. Life He was born in eastern Budapest (Pest) on 26 September 1831, the son of Israel Saphir, ...

, another Jewish-convert Protestant minister. She died in 1850; he then, in 1851, married Cornelia van Vollenhoven of

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. Among his children was Jozua Marius Willem Schwartz (known under his pen-name as novelist

Maarten Maartens Maarten Maartens, pen name of ''Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz'' (15 August 1858 in Amsterdam – 3 August 1915 in Doorn), was a Dutch writer, who wrote in English. He was quite well known at the end of the nineteenth and the beg ...

Publications

* ''The Scattered Nation'' in 3 volumes
Vol. 1Vol. 2Vol. 3

References

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