Bernstein gives a brief summary:

Pieritz, G. Wildon, born at Klecko in Posen, in 1808, baptized 1835, laboured as a missionary of the L.J.S. in the forties of the nineteenth century at Jerusalem, in Damascus, and subsequently settled at Oxford, where he was engaged in teaching. He was a learned and spiritually-minded man, as his articles in the “Hebrew Christian Witness, 1874-5,” testify.[415] He was the author of “The Gospels from the Rabbinical Point of View,” London and Oxford, 1873.

More details are given here:

The history of George Wilden Pieritz is an interesting story because he started his early life in the Jewish faith and later converted [sic] to Christianity.

The tombstone inscription reads:

Rev George Wildon PIERITZ MA

In early life a Jewish Rabbi

baptized 1834

[Ord]ained a priest in the church of England 1847

[ ] some time a missionary both in Jerusalem

and in India

[Di]ed at Pitney Som July 24 1884

aged 76

George Wilden Pieritz was born in 1809 in Prussia into the Jewish faith. He was a made a Rabbi at the age of 18 years and was a keen student of Hebrew. In 1834, when he was aged 25 years he converted to Christianity. His baptism was sponsored by the King of Prussia and the historian Neander. Once established as a Christian he became a very committed missionary.

In 1837 Father Pieritz went to Jerusalem, actively participating as a layman in the work of the ‘London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews’ and helping to establish the first Protestant church in the Holy Land. In 1840 he went to Damascus for four months ‘to intercede with the consuls on behalf of the persecuted Jews’ (their persecution had followed on the ‘Blood Accusation’ that they had been involved in the murder of a Capuchin monk) and ‘he made a full report on the circumstances’. In 1841 he went to Bucharest for a few months exploring the possibility of the Society working with the Jewish community there. (Gidney, pp 180, 181, 229, 254)

He came to England in 1840, studied at Cambridge and was ordained in 1846. After this he served as a curate in Stanningly for two years. He married his wife Sarah, (born in 1817 in Rochester) in 1846. Following their marriage they went to India where Father Pieritz was a missionary for four years from 1847 to 1851. Their daughter Ann L Pieritz was born in India in 1851.

When the family returned to England in 1851 Father Pieritz taught pupils at Cambridge until he was ‘presented to the living of Hardwicke’ in 1865. He came to Cowley St John in 1870 and taught Hebrew. The Parish magazine notes that he gave a talk on Christian mission at the Cowley St John Girls School in the spring 1871. The 1881 census records him living at 33 Iffley Road with his wife Sarah and daughter Ann.

During the vacations he would often provide relief cover for vicars in other parishes. In fact he died on July 24 1884 aged 76 years of heart failure whilst away in Pitney in Somerset providing cover for the local vicar. (See obituary Cowley St John Parish Magazine, August 1884).

Ann Pieritz, his daughter, was an active member of the community and organised the St Agnes Guild. In January 1885 she was presented with a clock as a token of gratitude for all the organizing she had contributed. In January 1886, when she was seriously ill, she spent some time in St John’s Hospital and died soon after

Prayer: Thank you Lord for the life of George Pieritz, whose ministry in UK, Israel, Bucharest and India was faithful and diligent. Help us to walk diligently before you in all our ways. In Yeshua’s name we pray. Amen.

http://www.ssmjchurchyard.org.uk/pieritz_family.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_affair

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pieritz-1