Gottfried Fritschel
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Gottfried William Leonhard Fritschel (
Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
, December 19, 1836 – 1889) was a German-born Lutheran who emigrated to Iowa.
American National Biography The ''American National Biography'' (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries and 20 million words, first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Le ...
: Fishberg-Gihon John Arthur Garraty, Mark Christopher Carnes, American Council of Learned Societies - 1999 p956 "Studying at the institute from 1853 to 1856, Fritschel was deeply influenced by the director of the school, Wilhelm Lohe. After completing his work at Neuendettelsau, Fritschel attended the University of Erlangen for a year, 1856-1857, where he studied with JKC von Hofmann, Theodosius Harnack, Gottfried Thomasius, and others..."
His father was Martin Fritschel a minister, his brother Conrad Sigmund Fritschel (1833–1900) was a professor at Wartburg College, and his son George J. Fritschel, also became a professor at Dubuque.


Works

* ''Luther und offene Fragen'' - in ''Zeitschrift für die gesammte lutherische Theologie und Kirche'' Iowa, 1867


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fritschel, Gottfried 1836 births 1889 deaths American Lutherans German emigrants to the United States 19th-century Lutherans