Few people are more strongly associated with the Sorbian emigration movement of the 19th century than Jan Kilian. In 1854 the pastor, born in Doehlen in Upper Lusatia, left his home country for Texas, where he founded the colony Serbin with almost 600 Sorbs. At an international conference on the occasion of Kilian’s 200th birthday in September 2011, scholars presented new studies into his work as a theologian and author of hymns, his family origins, and the circumstances of his emigration, which have now been collected in this bilingual volume. These essays impressively demonstrate how a Sorbian farmer’s son shaped the history of both Lusatia and his adopted Texan home.