Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

male, deceased (1945)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 - April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement...

Martin Niemöller

male, deceased (1984)
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known as the author of the poem "...

Ernst Käsemann

male, deceased (1998)
Ernst Käsemann, was a Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament in Mainz (1946-1951), Göttingen (1951-1959) and Tübingen (1959-1971).
Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg

Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg

male, deceased (1719)
Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (July 10, 1682 - February 23, 1719) was a member of the Lutheran clergy and the first Protestant missionary to India.
Oskar Brüsewitz

Oskar Brüsewitz

male, deceased (1976)
Oskar Brüsewitz was a 47 year old East German Lutheran priest who committed self-immolation to protest the repression of religion in the Communist s...
Johann von Rist

Johann von Rist

male, deceased (1667)
Johann von Rist (1607-1667), German poet, was born at Ottensen in Holstein (today Hamburg) on 8 March 1607; the son of the Lutheran pastor of that...

Roland Weißelberg

male, deceased (2006)
Roland Weißelberg was a retired Lutheran Vikar who on October 31 2006 set himself on fire in a German monastery of the town Erfurt as a protest a...

Otto von Gerlach

male, deceased (1849)
Karl Friedrich Otto von Gerlach was a German theologian and pastor. He was the youngest of five children of Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach...

Georg Andreas Helwing

male, deceased (1748)
Georg Andreas Helwing was a botanist and Lutheran pastor. Helwing was born in Angerburg in Brandenburg-Prussia's Duchy of Prussia. He became a...
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh

male
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Junior was a German theologian and public health advocate. His father was Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior (6 March...