Protestant religious leader and educator, born in Hagerstown, Maryland, USA. Trained at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton Theological Seminary, he became a leader of American Lutherism when he co-founded (1820), with his father, the General Synod of Lutheran Churches. In 1826 he was appointed the first professor of the Lutheran seminary, in Gettysburg, PA. He remained there until 1864. He advocated American Lutheranism in contrast to a sterner creed favoured by German and Scandinavian immigrants, and was a political liberal, supporting abolition and other reform movements.
Samuel Simon Schmucker (1799-1873) was an American Lutheran divine.
Schmucker was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania (1819), studied in Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained a Lutheran minister (1821).
His publication of 1838 prepared the way for the formation of the Evangelical Alliance, which was formed in Freemason's Hall, London, August 19-23, 1846. He was the leader of the low-church Lutheran party who were connected with the General Synod and was better known outside of his communion than any other Lutheran minister.
Amongst his numerous publications are:
Fraternal Appeal to the American Churches on Christian Union (1838) The American Lutheran Church (1851) The Lutheran Symbols (1856) The Church of the Redeemer as developed within the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (1870)Schmucker is buried in Evergreen Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania).
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