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Fick, Carl Johann Hermann

(February 2, 1822–April 30, 1885). B. Dönhausen, Hannover, Ger.; educ. Göttingen; private tutor Mecklenburg; to Am. 1846 with A. G. G. Francke* and C. L. A. Wolter*; charter mem. Mo. Syn.; pastor New Melle, Missouri, 1847, Bremen, Missouri, 1850, Detroit, Michigan, 1854, Collinsville, Illinois, 1859, and Boston, Massachusetts, 1872. Works include Das Geheimniss der Bosheit; Das Lutherbuch; Die Märtyrer der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche; Es ist ein Gott; Geschichten aus Kirche und Welt; poems, including the hymn “Gehe auf, du Trost der Heiden” (“Rise, Thou Light of Gentile Nations”).


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