Muench Family Photograph Collection

<p>Friederich Muench (1799-1881) was an author, teacher, Lutheran minister, farmer and winemaker, and Missouri State Senator. In 1834 he emigrated to Missouri via Baltimore along with friend Paul Follenius and 500 members of the Gie?ener Auswanderungsgesellschaft (Giessen Emigration Society), which had been founded in Germany by the pair. Muench and his family settled in the Lake Creek area in Warren County near Paul Follenius and Gottfried Duden, whose writing lauding rural Missouri attracted thousands of German emigrants to the state beginning in the 1830s. Generations of Muench's descendants remained in Missouri.</p>

<p>The Muench Family Photograph Collection contains one box of photographs documenting multiple generations of the Muench family in Missouri from about 1865 to 2012. It primarily consists of identified portraits of family members, but it also contains images of Muench property including farming activities, Muench family graves, and ancestral homesteads.</p>

弗里德里希·门奇（1799-1881）系一位作家、教师、路德派牧师、农夫及酿酒师，同时也是密苏里州参议员。1834年，他携友保罗·福伦纽斯及五百名来自德国吉森移民协会（Giessen Emigration Society）的成员，经巴尔的摩移民至密苏里州。该协会由二人共同在德国创立。门奇及其家人在沃伦县的湖溪地区定居，邻近保罗·福伦纽斯和戈特弗里德·杜登，后者所著赞美密苏里乡村的著作吸引了自1830年代起数千名德国移民至此。门奇的后代数代均留居密苏里州。<br><br>门奇家族摄影藏品包括一盒照片，记录了自1865年至2012年间密苏里州门奇家族多代人的影像。该藏品主要包含家族成员的识别肖像，亦包含门奇地产的图像，包括农耕活动、门奇家族墓地及祖先宅邸。