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GERHARD See also: German religious writer, was See also: born on the 25th of See also: November 1697, at Mors, at that See also: time the capital of a countship belonging to the See also: house of Orange-See also: Nassau (it See also: fell to Prussia in 1702), which formed a See also: Protestant enclave in the midst of a Catholic country
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After being educated at the gymnasium of his native See also: town, See also: Tersteegen was for some years apprenticed to a See also: merchant
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He soon came under the influence of Wilhelm Hoffman, a pietistic revivalist, and devoted himself to writing and public speaking, with-See also: drawing in 1728 from all secular pursuits and giving himself entirely to religious See also: work
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His writings include a collection of See also: hymns (Das geistliche Blumengartlein, 1729; new edition, See also: Stuttgart, 1868), a See also: volume of Gebete, and another of Briefe, besides See also: translations of the writings of the French mystics
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He died at Muhlheim in Westphalia on the 3rd of See also: April 1769
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See HYMNS, and the article by Eduard Simons in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, vol. xix
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