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Gossner Missionaries in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

George B. Arbauch
George B. Arbauch
Affiliation:
Carthage College, Carthage, Illinois
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When the great German immigration to America began, flooding across Pennsylvania, down the Ohio River, up into Ohio and Indiana, and out into the states west and north, it was impossible for the small American Lutheran Church to supply sufficient pastors for the care of these immigrants. Among others in Germany who were concerned about the need was Pastor Johannes Evangelista Gossner of Berlin. The men he sent to America have written an interesting, if not major, chapter in American church history.

Type
Research Article
Information
Church History , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , September 1939 , pp. 222 - 230
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1939

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15 B. J. Ansorge came to the United States in 1870, went to the St. Louis seminary of the Missouri Synod and became the first pastor of that synod in Kentucky. H. Kleinhagen, who came to America in 1841, worked for a time in a weak German congregation in New Orleans, La. Johannes Lüpke came in 1886, worked in Joint Synod of Ohio and Iowa Synod congregations, and later practiced medicine (rubbing treatments) and sold insurance. F. W. Kitzki came in 1889 and returned to Germany after a short pastorate at Emerald, Nebraska. G. Endrulat likewise served in the German Nebraska Snyod of the General Synod. I. Friedrieh Grassow, one of the earliest men, worked at Evansville, Indiana, without affiliating with any synod. Still others may have come, but definite information is lacking.

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