Noontime lecture by Dr. Aaron Palmore
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Christian Wedsted (1720–1757) was a Moravian missionary, scribe, and translator. Alongside his formal duties, he also composed a significant amount of occasional Latin poetry. Almost all of his poems double as letters, many of them addressed to important figures like Ludwig von Zinzendorf, August Spangenberg, and Matthew Hehl. After introducing Wedsted and his historical and literary contexts, this talk will focus on the moments in his poems that are likely to be most consequential for Moravian historians: his references to Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf and the “Sifting Time”, his accounts of various celebrations in Bethlehem, and his descriptions of crossing the Atlantic.

Dr. Aaron Palmore is Assistant Teaching Professor in Classics at Loyola University Maryland
Our lecture series is sponsored by Campbell, Rappold & Yurasits LLP