Elisabeth Sommer

Biographic Data

ID3676260
NAMEElisabeth Sommer
GIVEN NAMESElisabeth
FAMILY NAMESommer
SIGNATURESOMMER E
AFFILIATIONSGrand Valley State University
ORCID0000-0002-4813-2171
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Animating the Kress Collection: Toward a Model of Shared Curatorial Authority and Engagement with Old Master Works

    Open AccessSabiha Ahmad Khan, Elisabeth SommerARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2021

    In 2014, The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) embarked on a project to fuse Old Master paintings with digital animation called, “Animating the Kress Collection.” The primary goal was to engage younger audiences, roughly defined as middle school through young adult, with the museum’s Kress Collection of European Old Master artists, with supporting goals of making the works more accessible to K‐12 teachers and students and encouraging the wider communi…

  • Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801

    Ruth Alden Doan, Elisabeth SommerARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2001Cited by: 1

    Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801. By Elisabeth W. Sommer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. Pp. xvii, 234. Illustrations, map. $39.95.) Elisabeth W. Sommer joins recent writers on Moravian experience in seeking to bring a scholarly perspective to a group too often viewed through a religious or sentimental lens. Sommer focuses her study on two communities-Herrnhut in Germany and Salem in…

  • Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801

    Jerry L Surratt, Elisabeth W Sommer et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2001

  • Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801

    Steven M Nolt, Elisabeth SommerARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727–1801. By Elisabeth W. Sommer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. xviii, 234 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2139-6.) Get access Steven M. Nolt Steven M. Nolt Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1471, https://doi.org/10.…

  • Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727- 1801

    Jon Sensbach, Elisabeth W Sommer et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2001

  • Gambling with God: The Use of the Lot by the Moravian Brethren in the Eighteenth Century

    Elisabeth W Sommer, Elisabeth SommerARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1998

    Gambling with God: The Use of the Lot by the Moravian Brethren in the Eighteenth Century Elisabeth Sommer The use of the lot in decision-making marks the Moravian Brethren as peculiar in eighteenth-century Europe. Their belief that the lot represented the true will of Christ stands at odds with a century which had inherited a changing world view in which a strong confidence in the power of human reason gradually replaced the assumption of God’s p…

  • A Different Kind of Freedom? Order and Discipline among the Moravian Brethren in Germany and Salem, North Carolina 1771-1801

    Open AccessElisabeth SommerARTICLEChurch History1994Cited by: 1

    On 19 January 1774, Joseph Müller was expelled from the town of Salem, North Carolina for becoming engaged to Sarah Hauser without the permission of the Elders Conference. On 23 August 1775 Mattheus Weiβ was likewise expelled forwriting a "bad letter" to friends in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and on 4 November 1789, Jacob Bonn Jr., who hadbeen struggling with chronic debt, was expelled for refusing to sell his house and accept a steward for his fina…