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Carl Nathanael Burckhardt (13 January 1878 in Lindau bei Zürich; † 24. Dezember 1923 in Ligornetto) was a Swiss sculptor and painter. He was the son of the historian Carl Jacob Burckhardt and the father of Titus Burckhardt.

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Carl Johann Hermann Fick (February 2, 1822–April 30, 1885) was a Lutheran pastor. He wrote the hymn “Gehe auf, du Trost der Heiden” (“Rise, Thou Light of Gentile Nations”). He was pastor at St. Paul's Church in New Melle, Missouri, 1847, Bremen, Missouri, 1850, Detroit, Michigan, 1854, Collinsville, Illinois, 1859, and Boston, Massachusetts, 1872.

Rev. Hermann Flick became the first permanent pastor three years later in 1847. Flick was from German Hanover and has studied at Goettingen before immigrating to America in 1846. Although he eventually moved on from him role as Pastor of St. Paul's to join other congregations in other cities, included St. Louis, Detroit and Boston and he later become known in the Lutheran community for his poetry, writing as well as authorship of the hymn Gehe auf, du Trost der Heiden (English: Rise, Thou Light of Gentile Nations). He also wrote Das Lutherbuch oder leben und thaten des theuren Mannes Gottes, Dr. Martin Luther which would become a basic test in Lutheran schools across the country.

B. Dönhausen, Hannover, Ger.; educ. Göttingen; private tutor Mecklenburg; to Am. 1846 with A. G. G. Francke* and C. L. A. Wolter*; charter mem. Mo. Syn.; Works include Das Geheimniss der Bosheit; Das Lutherbuch; Die Märtyrer der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche; Es ist ein Gott; Geschichten aus Kirche und Welt; poems, including

died (b. 2 February 1822).

"In Moving Frontiers: Readings in the History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (ed. Carl S. Meyer, CPH: St. Louis, 1964, pp. 200-201), there is a translation of an account by Friedich Buenger (from Der Lutheraner, Vol. III, 15 June 1947, pp.83-4) of St. Paul's Lutheran Church-New Melle calling Hanover emigrant, Carl Johann Hermann Fick, as their pastor (after a trial sermon on Palm Sunday, March 28, 1847). But before he could begin his ministry at St. Paul's, Rev. Fick attended the Chicago convention in which he became a charter member of the newly founded Missouri Synod. Rev. Fick and his congregation requested that he be ordained at New Melle. On May 30, 1847 (Trinity Sunday), at 10:00 AM, before 200 people gathered, Rev. Fick was ordained according to the ordinary in the agenda by Loehe by Rev. G.A. Schieferdecker (who preached the sermon). and Friedrich Buenger. Other pictures of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, New Melle are at: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3654/3343244966_a76a918c74.jpg http://www.tedcarnahan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/St.-Paul-New-Melle-MO.JPG http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/large/63a48e3f-687e-47c7-9947-9634d08b9216.jpg"

Pastor at Historic Trinity Lutheran Church