Johannes Gossner
Priest, Deceased Person
1773 – 1858
Who was Johannes Gossner?
Johannes Evangelista Gossner, German divine and philanthropist, was born at Hausen near Augsburg.
He was educated at the University of Dillingen. He, like Martin Boos and others, came under the spell of the Evangelical movement promoted by Johann Michael Sailer, the professor of pastoral theology.
After taking priests' orders, Gossner held livings at Dirlewang and Munich, but his evangelical tendencies brought about his dismissal and in 1826 he formally left the Roman Catholic for the Protestant communion. As Reformed minister of Bethlehem's Church, a Lutheran and Reformed simultaneum in Berlin, he was conspicuous not only for practical and effective preaching, but for the founding of schools, asylums and missionary agencies.
Lives of Gossner have been written by Bethmann Hollweg and Hermann Dalton.
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- Born
- Dec 14, 1773
Diedorf - Also known as
- Johannes Evangelista Gossner
- Johannes Evangelista Goßner
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- University of Dillingen
- Died
- Mar 20, 1858
Berlin
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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