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JOHANNES EVANGELISTA GOSSNER (1773-1858)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 269 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOSSNER (1773-1858)  , See also:German divine and philanthropist, was See also:born at Hausen near See also:Augsburg on the 14th of See also:December 1773, and educated at the university of See also:Dillingen . Here like See also:Martin See also:Boos and others he came under the spell of the Evangelical See also:movement promoted by Johann See also:Michael Sailer, the See also:professor of See also:pastoral See also:theology . After taking See also:priest's orders, See also:Gossner held livings at Dirlewang (1804—1811) and See also:Munich (1811—1817), but his evangelical tendencies brought about his dismissal and in 1826 he formally See also:left the See also:Roman See also:Catholic for the See also:Protestant communion . As See also:minister of the See also:Bethlehem See also:church in See also:Berlin (1829—1846) he was conspicuous not only for See also:practical and effective See also:preaching, but for the See also:founding of See also:schools, asylums and missionary agencies . He died on the loth of See also:March 1858 . Lives by Bethmann-Hollweg (Berlin, 1858) and H . See also:Dalton (Berlin, 1878) .

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