Henry Ernest Muhlenberg

Henry Ernest Muhlenberg (1753–1815), born in Trappe, PA, studied, like his brothers, theology in Halle, Germany (1763–1769) at the “Pädagogium” of the “Franckesche Stfitungen.” Ordained a Lutheran minister after his return to Pennsylvania (1770), Henry also became an important botanist who collaborated with European scholars in establishing a catalog of North American plants (Catalogus Plantarum Americae Septentrionalis, 1813). (Courtesy of Franklin & Marshall College and the Permanent Collections of the Phillips Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA)