1. Hermann Otto Erich Sasse was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and author.
14 Facts About Hermann Sasse
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Hermann Sasse was considered one of the foremost confessional Lutheran theologians of the 20th century.
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Hermann Sasse was a German infantryman in World War I, in which he was one of only six men in his battalion to survive the trench warfare in Flanders.
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Hermann Sasse was ordained on 13 June 1920 in St Matthew's Church in Berlin and thereafter served several parishes in Brandenburg, Hermann Sasse took the licentiate in theology in 1923.
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Hermann Sasse spent a year as an exchange student at Hartford Theological Seminary in the United States, where he earned a master's degree.
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Hermann Sasse returned to Germany to take up a teaching position at University of Erlangen.
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Hermann Sasse married Charlotte Margarete Naumann on 11 September 1928 at St Nicolai's Church in Oranienburg, Germany.
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Hermann Sasse attended the first world conference of the Faith and Order Movement in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1927 as a delegate and translator.
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Hermann Sasse attended the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments in Geneva in 1932.
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In 1949, Hermann Sasse emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia, where he served on the faculty of Immanuel Seminary of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia.
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Hermann Sasse was heavily involved in the effort merging that body with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia to create the Lutheran Church of Australia in 1966.
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Hermann Sasse was known in the United States as "Mr Lutheran" and regularly corresponded with Lutheran leaders there and elsewhere.
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Hermann Sasse was involved with the Australian Roman Catholic-Lutheran dialogue from its beginnings.
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Hermann Sasse died in a fire at his home in North Adelaide on 9 August 1976 and was buried in Centennial Park Cemetery.