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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Boltzius, Johann Martin ___ n/a-n/a ___ German ___ priest BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY There is very little information about Boltzius readily available on the internet in English. Neither his birth or death date seem to be known, and his name is spelled in at least two ways (Boltzius, Bolzius). He was born in Germany and went to Georgia, US, in 1734 as the first minister of the Salzburgers, a group of Lutherans he had met in Rotterdam who were escaping religious persecution in Austria. They arrived in Charleston, and were supplied with a guide who led their ship to Savannah. Here land was set aside for them and they founded their town of Ebenezer. Boltzius served the parish for over thirty years He also established an orphanage there, said to be the first in the American colonies. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1734 ___ maritime religious social travel WEB TEXT LINKS lots of extracts (but search site with Google) about marble ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS SOME PUBLISHED TITLES An Extract of the Journals of Mr. Commissary Von Reck, Who Conducted the First Transport of Saltzburgers to Georgia: And of the Reverend Mr. Bolzius, One of their Ministers. May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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