(February 17, 1806March 22, 1890). B. Saxony; educ. Dresden and Leipzig; pastor Rochsburg and Lunzenau; joined Saxon emigrants under M. Stephan* Sr.; pastor Seelitz, Perry Co., Missouri; in the confusion resulting from doubts regarding the doctrine of ch. and ministry he resigned as pastor at Seelitz; after the 1841 Altenburg* Debate he left Missouri; en route to Ger. he stopped at Buffalo and was persuaded to remain as pastor of former followers of L. F. E. Krause; charter mem. Mo. Syn.; pastor Buffalo and W. Seneca, New York, Washington, D. C., and Winona, Minnesota. Memoirs of Ernst Moritz Buerger, tr. by E. J. Buerger (Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1953).
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