Gossner Missionaries in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3841559 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George B Arbauch (Carthage College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1939 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 222-230 |
| Publication date | 1939-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3159929 |
| OpenAlex | W2121106638 |
| Language | EN |
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
Archaeology · Economic history · Ethnology · Fur trade · German · Immigration · Political science · History · Moravian Church and William Blake · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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