Johannes Evangelista Gossner (14 December 1773 – 20 March 1858), German divine and philanthropist, was born at Hausen near Augsburg.
He was educated at the University of Dillingen,[1] where he studied for priesthood with two years course of Philosophy, and Physics in 1791. He, like Martin Boos and others, came under the spell of the Evangelical movement promoted by Johann Michael Sailer,[2] the professor of pastoral theology.[3] He moved to Neuburg in 1790’s where he was influenced by the movement of revival in South Bavaria known as "The Awakening".
After taking priests' orders, Gossner held livings at Dirlewang (1804-1811) and Munich (1811-1817). His evangelical tendencies led to difficulties when he was taken to church court in 1802[2] and eventually brought about his dismissal. In 1826 he formally left the Roman Catholic for the Protestant communion. As Reformed (Calvinist) minister of Bethlehem's Church (1829-1846),[1] a Lutheran and Reformed simultaneum in Berlin, he was conspicuous not only for practical and effective preaching, but for the founding of schools, asylums and missionary agencies.[3]
In 1836, he founded the Gossner Mission,[4] which aimed for a holistic understanding of mission (preaching the gospel and church social service). Its purpose was “to train young men from the craftsman class and every other class in a shorter and less expensive way than usual to become assistants in the mission, to become deacons, catechists, school teachers and collaborators in the holy work.” They have to work in “apostolic, unbound and humble simplicity”, following the example of the congregation of the Moravian Church “under the presidency of Jesus Christ.“[5] Missionaries were initially sent out to Australia.[6] This missionary work is still active today in Germany and, among other places, in India and Nepal.
Lives of Gossner were written by Bethmann Hollweg (Berlin, 1858) and Hermann Dalton (Berlin, 1878).[3]
^ abLutheran Library website, John Goszner's Treasury
^ abChristianity.com website, John Gossner Driven from Russia and Denomination, article dated April 28, 2010
^ abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gossner, Johannes Evangelista". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 269.
^Griffith University website, German Missionaries in Australia
^Werner Raupp (Ed.), 1990 (Sources), p. 260, 258.
^Monument Australia website, 175th Anniversary of the Arrival of Missionaries
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