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TERSTEEGEN, GERHARD (1697–1769)

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TERSTEEGEN, See also:GERHARD (1697–1769) , 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 See also:capital of a countship belonging to the See also:house of See also:Orange-See also:Nassau (it See also:fell to See also:Prussia in 1702), which formed a See also:Protestant See also:enclave in the midst of a See also:Catholic See also:country. After being educated at the gymnasium of his native See also:town, Tersteegen was for some years apprenticed to a See also:merchant. He soon came under the See also:influence of Wilhelm Hoffman, a pietistic revivalist, and devoted himself to See also:writing and public speaking, with-See also:drawing in 1728 from all See also:secular pursuits and giving himself entirely to religious See also:work. 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 See also:French mystics. He died at Muhlheim in See also:Westphalia on the 3rd of See also:April 1769. See HYMNS, and the See also:article by Eduard Simons in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, vol. xix. (ed. 1907).

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