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JOHANN KONRAD See also: German divine and philanthropist, was See also: born on the 21st of February18o8 in See also: Furth near See also: Nuremberg, and was educated at the See also: universities of See also: Erlangen and Berlin
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In 1831 he was appointed See also: vicar at Kirchenlamitz, where his fervent evangelical preaching attracted large congregations and puzzled the ecclesiastical authorities
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A similar experience ensued at Nuremberg, where he was assistant pastor of St Egidia
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In 1837 he became pastor in Neuendettelsau, a small and unattractive place, where his See also: life's See also: work was done, and which he transformed into a busy and influential community
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He was interested in the spiritual condition of Germans who had emigrated to the See also: United States, and built two training homes for missionaries to them
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In 1849 he founded the Lutheran Society of Home See also: Missions and in 1853 an institution of deaconesses
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Other institutions were added to these, including a lunatic See also: asylum, a Magdalen See also: refuge, and hospitals for men and See also: women
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In See also: theology Lithe was a strict Lutheran, but his piety was of a most attractive kind
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Originality of conception, vividness of presentation, fertility of See also: imagination, wide knowledge of Scripture and a happy faculty of applying it, intense spiritual fervour, a striking physique and a powerful See also: voice made him a See also: great pulpit force
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He wrote a See also: good See also: deal, amongst his books being Drei See also: Bucher 'von der Kirche (1845), Samenkorner See also: des Gebeles (over 30 See also: editions) and several volumes of sermons
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He died on the and of See also: January 1872
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See his Life, by J
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Dcinzer (3 vols., Giitersloh, 1873, 3rd ed., 1901) . |
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