| I need informaton about Piispa Jaakko Gummerus (1870-1933) 1642 Raamattu. |
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Jaakko Gummerus was born on 13th October 1870 in Sääminki as a son of Lutheran pastor. He studied at University of Helsinki history and Greek language and worked after Master of Arts examination as a journalist. Later he started studies in theological faculty and received ordination in Evangelical Lutheran church 1897. He had already then made foreign studies in Germany. He was a professor in Church history in Helsinki 1900-1920.
As a church historian he published in German researches about the medieval confession practice in Sweden and Arian controversy , in Swedish about medieval church synods in Sweden and in Finnish about Mikael Agricola, the reformer of Finland.
As a scholar he demanded that theological research must follow all laws... |
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